Girls, boys, books, toys : gender in children's literature and culture

Clark, Beverly Lyon. (Added Author). Higonnet, Margaret R. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0801860563 (alk. paper : pbk.)
Physical Description: print
vii, 296 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition: Johns Hopkins pbks. ed.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- The 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 --A Bad Hair Day for G.I. Joe / Karen Klugman -- Imagining Dinosaurs / Susan Willis -- Grrrls and Dolls: Feminism and Female Youth Culture / Lynne Vallone -- An 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.