Language, gender and children's fiction
By: Jane Sunderland.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780826446138
Subjects: Children's stories -- History and criticism; Discourse analysis, Literary; Sex role in literature; Gender identity in literature; Language and sex
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Language and gender: issues and applications; title: Content analysis: the early days; title: The importance of language and of linguistic analysis of fiction; title: Happily ever after?; title: More than fifty years of reading schemes; title: Stories about two-mum and two-dad families (written with Mark McGlashan); title: Miss Katherine shot the sheriff: the literary affordance of achronological intertextuality; title: Hermione, Harry and gender relations at Hogwarts; title: Conclusion.