Guides: ENG 251: Children's Literature: Gender

Gender in Children's Literature

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Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture by LuElla D'Amico (Editor); Marlowe Daly-Galeano (Contribution by); Eva Lupold (Contribution by); Christiane E. Farnan (Contribution by); Paige Gray (Contribution by); Michael G. Cornelius (Contribution by); Carolyn Cocca (Contribution by); Nichole Bogarosh (Contribution by); Linda Simon (Contribution by); Megan E. Friddle (Contribution by); Mariko Turk (Contribution by); Mary Bronstein (Contribution by); Lisa Laurier (Contribution by); Lori Johnson (Contribution by); Janine J. Darragh (Contribution by); Grace Halden (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781498517638
Publication Date: 2017-10-31
Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature by Lisa Rowe Fraustino (Editor); Karen Coats (Editor)
ISBN: 9781496818430
Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature by Roberta Seelinger Trites
ISBN: 9781496823458
Publication Date: 2019-04-19
The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction by Farah Mendlesohn; Donald E. Palumbo (Editor); C. W. Sullivan (Editor)
ISBN: 9780786435036
Publication Date: 2009-07-01
Includes relevant chapter: "Socialization and the Gendered (Future) Society"
Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture by Beverly Lyon Clark (Editor); Margaret R. Higonnet (Editor)
ISBN: 9780801865268
Publication Date: 2000-10-24
Includes several relevant chapters including: "Liberal Bias in Feminist Social Science Research on Children's Books", "Making the Front Page: Views of Women/Women's Views in the Picture Book", and "Just a Spoonful of Sugar?: Anxieties of Gender and Class in 'Mary Poppins'"
Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series by Sherrie A. Inness (Editor)
ISBN: 9780879727352
Publication Date: 1997-12-31
This intriguing anthology brings together a broad range of critical essays on girls' series fiction from established scholars such as Chamberlain, Johnson, and Romalov, along with emerging scholars Katrine Poe, Maureen Reed, and Deborah Siegel. Topics include: Anne of Green Gables, the Isabel Carleton series, early twentieth-century girls' automobile series, girls' scouting novels, 1910-1935, Cherry Ames in World War II, Nancy Drew, and Judy Bolton.

Exile and Gender I: Literature and the Press by Charmian Brinson (Editor); Andrea Hammel (Editor)
ISBN: 9789004313798
Publication Date: 2016-04-21
Includes relevant chapter: "Un-/Doing Gender in Exile Children's Literature: For Example Lisa Tetzner's Children's Odyssee"
The Journey of Female Characters in the Work of Edith Nesbit, Enid Blyton, Joanne Kathleen Rowling, Joss Whedon, and Rockne S. O'Bannon by Lesley-Ann Colgan
ISBN: 9780779980505
Publication Date: 2016-06-15
Includes relevant chapter: "Profiling the Girl Detectives"
Precocious Children and Childish Adults: Age Inversion in Victorian Literature by Claudia Nelson
ISBN: 9781421406121
Publication Date: 2012-07-02
Includes several relevant chapters including: "Women as Girls", "Girls as Women", and "Boys as Men"
Girls, Texts, Cultures by Clare Bradford (Editor); Mavis Reimer (Editor)
ISBN: 9781771120203
Publication Date: 2015-04-14
This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls' experience. It brings together scholars from girls' studies and children's literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies. Contributors from disciplines such as sociology, literature, education, and gender studies combine these disciplinary approaches in novel ways.
The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature by David Rudd (Editor)
ISBN: 9780203889855
Publication Date: 2012-07-26
Includes relevant chapter: "Gender Studies"
X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790–1895 by Megan A. Norcia
ISBN: 9780821443538
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
Includes relevant chapter: "Terra Incognita: The Gendering of Geographic Experience in the Works of Barbara Hofland, Priscilla Wakefield, Mary H.C. Legh, Lucy Wilson, Mrs. E. Burrows, and Maria Hack"