Girls, Boys, Books, Toys
Subtitle: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture
Contributors: Beverly Lyon Clark (Editor); Margaret R. Higonnet (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 27, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780801860539
Subjects: Children's literature studies: general; Cultural studies; Gender Studies; Literary studies: general; Sexism in literature; Girls; Juvenile Literature; Sexuality In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; History and criticism; Children's Studies; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Children's Literature - General; Books and reading; Children's literature
First sentence: As Karen Rowe noted long ago, the "literary versions" of Continental fairy tales disseminated in England throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries "differed substantially for men and women" (69).