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- catalog abstract ""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?"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11138887.
- catalog contributor b11138888.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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?"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "vii, 296 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Girls, boys, books, toys.".
- catalog identifier "0801860539 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Girls, boys, books, toys.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Girls, boys, books, toys.".
- catalog subject "305.3/09 21".
- catalog subject "Boys Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Children's literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Girls Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "PN1009.5.S48 G57 1999".
- catalog subject "Play Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Sexism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sexism.".
- catalog subject "Toys Social aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Girls, boys, books, toys : gender in children's literature and culture / edited by Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".