Girls, boys, books, toys : gender in children's literature and culture / [print]
edited by Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet.
- Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2000.
- 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Repudiating "Sleeping Beauty" Child's play as woman's peace work : Maria Edgeworth's "The Cherry Orchard", historical rebellion narratives, and contemporary cultural studies "These two irreconcilable things-- art and young girls" : the case of the girls' school story Romancing the home : gender, empire, and the South Pacific Liberal bias in feminist social science research on children's books Coming "to sing their being" : the poetry of Grace Nichols Fictions of difference : contemporary Indian stories for children Making the front page : views of women/women's views in the picture book Discourses of femininity and the intertextual construction of feminist reading positions Taking over the doll house : domestic desire and nostalgia in toy narratives Comforts no more : the underside of quilts in children's literature Bad hair day for G.I. Joe Imagining dinosaurs Girls and dolls : feminism and female youth culture Arab girl draws trouble Just a spoonful of sugar? Anxieties of gender and class in "Mary Poppins" U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Mitzi Myers -- Mavis Reimer -- Claudia Marquis -- Roger Clark, Heidi Kulkin, and Liam Clancy -- Lissa Paul -- Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- William Moebius -- John Stephens and Robyn McCallum -- Lois R. Kuznets -- Cheryl B. Torsney -- Karen Klugman -- Susan Willis -- Lynne Vallone -- Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- Lori Kenschaft.
Children's literature--History and criticism. Sexism in literature. Girls--Books and reading. Boys--Books and reading. Play--Social aspects. Toys--Social aspects. Sexism.