Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0801865263
- ISBN-13
- 9780801865268
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-10-24
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Authors
- Beverly Lyon Clark, Margaret R. Higonnet
Description
No previous collection of criticism has focused on gender in the broad range of children's literature. No previous collection has embraced both children's literature and material culture. 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?
Get the book
Similar books
-
No Toys for Girls and Boys
By Rose Frances ThomasonHowever, this beautiful, enchanting new book by author Rose Frances Thomason is helping thousands of kids learn this vital lesson without being lectured to.
-
Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?
By Sarah Savage'A lovely, sensitive, much-needed book that helps all children ask the big questions about identity and gender.' - Juno Dawson, author of This Book is Gay Tiny loves costumes!
-
The Book of Boys (for Girls) & The Book of Girls (for Boys)
By David T. GreenbergInspired by the classic rhyme: ``What are little girls made of?'' and ``What are little boys made of?'' David Greenberg has supplied his own take on the matter, celebrating the differences between boys and girls.
-
Book of Toys for Girls and Boys
By Hilarie LindsayBook of Toys for Girls and Boys
-
Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different - and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men
By Steve BiddulphFrom award-winning psychologist Steve Biddulph comes an expanded and updated edition of RAISING BOYS, his international best seller published in 14 countries.
-
Gender Typing of Children's Toys: How Early Play Experiences Impact Development
By Lisa M. Dinella, Erica S. WeisgramIn this volume, scholars in developmental psychology, education, and neuroscience examine the ways in which children's toys often reflect and promote gender stereotypes, as well as the long-term consequences of gender-typed play.
-
Boys and Their Toys: Masculinity, Class and Technology in America
By Roger HorowitzPeter Golenbock, American Zoom: Stock Car Racing from the Dirt 'Ii'acks t0 Daytona (New York: Macmillan General Reference ... Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ...
-
Hello Girls & Boys!: A New Zealand Toy Story
By David VeartA seriously fun New Zealand toy story! Toys are made for playing with, but they are also serious business, as this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys makes clear. In Hello Girls and Boys!
-
The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children
By Rosalind C. Barnett, Caryl RiversIn The Truth About Girls and Boys, they tackle a new, troubling trend in the theorizing of gender: that the learning styles, brain development, motivation, cognitive and spatial abilities, and "natural" inclinations of girls and boys are so ...
-
Homemade Toys for Girls and Boys
By Albert Neely HallPacked with exciting activities to do individually and with family and friends, this book is a fantastic gift for children of all ages.