Journal of Women’s History 172 Winter © 2014 Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 26 No. 4, 172–181. Scouts, Tomboys, and the History of Girls and Girlhood Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris, eds. The Girls’ History and Culture Reader: The Nineteenth Century. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 315 pp. ISBN: 978-0-252-03574-6 (cl); 978-0-252-07765-4 (pb). Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris, eds. The Girls’ History and Culture Reader: The Twentieth Century. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 334 pp. ISBN: 978-0-252-03580-7 (cl); 978-0-252-07768-5 (pb). Tammy M. Proctor. Scouting for Girls: A Century of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009. xi + 189 pp.; ill. ISBN 978-0-313- 38114-0 (cl). Michelle Ann Abate. Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. xxx +300 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59213-722-0 (cl); 978-1-592-13723-7 (pb). Amanda H. Littauer I n the past decades, scholars of women’s and gender history have fash- ioned the new subield of girls’ history. Inluenced by the parallel and often intersecting development within women’s and gender studies, histo- rians of girls and girlhood have embraced interdisciplinary approaches and feminist theoretical frameworks, infusing history with feminist analyses and bringing historical inquiry to bear on the lives of contemporary girls. This review includes four texts that relect the vibrancy and diversity of girls’ history: Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris’s two-volume Girls’ His- tory and Culture Reader; and two monographs which approach the histories of particular girls and girlhoods in distinctive ways: Scouting for Girls by Tammy Proctor, and Tomboys by Michelle Ann Abate. The Girls’ History and Culture Reader is a boon to colleagues and stu- dents in girls’ studies, the history of women and gender, and the history of children and youth, as it helps to correct some of the blind spots par- ticular to each of these ields. Girls’ studies has focused predominantly on the contemporary period in which girls are active cultural producers and consumers, but less so on the earlier years which are highlighted in the nineteenth-century volume of the Reader. While historians of women and gender have written quite a bit about adolescents and young women, they rarely investigate the experiences of children or use age as a category of