| Description |
296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-281) and index. |
| Contents |
Repudiating "Sleeping Beauty" / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Child's play as woman's peace work : Maria Edgeworth's "The Cherry Orchard", historical rebellion narratives, and contemporary cultural studies / Mitzi Myers -- "These two irreconcilable things-- art and young girls" : the case of the girls' school story / Mavis Reimer -- Romancing the home : gender, empire, and the South Pacific / Claudia Marquis -- Liberal bias in feminist social science research on children's books / Roger Clark, Heidi Kulkin, and Liam Clancy -- Coming "to sing their being" : the poetry of Grace Nichols / Lissa Paul -- Fictions of difference : contemporary Indian stories for children / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- Making the front page : views of women/women's views in the picture book / William Moebius -- Discourses of femininity and the intertextual construction of feminist reading positions / John Stephens and Robyn McCallum -- Taking over the doll house : domestic desire and nostalgia in toy narratives / Lois R. Kuznets -- Comforts no more : the underside of quilts in children's literature / Cheryl B. Torsney -- Bad hair day for G.I. Joe / Karen Klugman -- Imagining dinosaurs / Susan Willis -- Girls and dolls : feminism and female youth culture / Lynne Vallone -- Arab girl draws trouble / Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- Just a spoonful of sugar? Anxieties of gender and class in "Mary Poppins" / Lori Kenschaft. |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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Children's literature. |
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Sexism in literature.
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Sexism in literature. |
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Girls -- Books and reading.
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Girls -- Books and reading. |
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Boys -- Books and reading.
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Boys -- Books and reading. |
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Play -- Social aspects.
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Play -- Social aspects. |
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Toys -- Social aspects.
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Toys -- Social aspects. |
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Toys. |
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Sexism.
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Sexism. |
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Girls. |
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Boys. |
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Sexism. |
| Added Author |
Clark, Beverly Lyon.
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Higonnet, Margaret R.
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| ISBN |
0801860539 alkaline paper |
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