In series fiction about the Girl Scouts and the Camp Fire Girls from the 1910s and 1920s, swimming enables new opportunities that question and disrupt nineteenth-century models of girlhood. Girl characters move beyond domestic roles and experiences, which contributes to the changing gender dynamics of this time period.
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