| Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture Revised Edition Contributor(s): Clark, Beverly Lyon (Editor), Higonnet, Margaret R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801865263 ISBN-13: 9780801865268 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $34.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2000 Annotation: Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet bring together twenty-two scholars to look closely at the complexities of children's culture. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children's culture is constructed and resisted. What happens when women rewrite (or illustrate) nursery rhymes, adventure stories, and fairy tales told by men? How do the socially scripted plots for boys and girls change through time and across cultures? Have critics been blind to what women write about "masculine" topics? Can animal tales or doll stories displace tired commonplaces about gender, race, and class? Can different critical approaches -- new historicism, narratology, or postcolonialism -- enable us to gain leverage on the different implications of gender, age, race, and class in our readings of children's books and children's culture? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Social Science | Gender Studies - Literary Criticism | Feminist |
| Dewey: 305.309 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (1.01 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet bring together twenty-two scholars to look closely at the complexities of children's culture. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children's culture is constructed and resisted. What happens when women rewrite (or illustrate) nursery rhymes, adventure stories, and fairy tales told by men? How do the socially scripted plots for boys and girls change through time and across cultures? Have critics been blind to what women write about "masculine" topics? Can animal tales or doll stories displace tired commonplaces about gender, race, and class? Can different critical approaches--new historicism, narratology, or postcolonialism--enable us to gain leverage on the different implications of gender, age, race, and class in our readings of children's books and children's culture? |
Contributor Bio(s): Clark, Beverly Lyon: - Beverly Lyon Clark is a professor of English and women's studies at Wheaton College. She is the author of Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America, also published by Johns Hopkins, the editor of Louisa May Alcott: The Contemporary Reviews, and the coeditor of "Little Women" and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays. |