Bibliographies

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CRITICAL STUDIES
Gender

Reading is a social activity, and literature is a social expression. Therefore, both will reflect the social attitudes of their time. These titles look at the mechanisms by which attitudes involving gender are represented in children's literature, past and present, and approaches that address the issues they raise.

The call number is to the text held in the Heyward Library.

Mary Cadogan and Patricia Craig, You're a brick, Angela! : a new look at girls' fiction from 1839 to 1975, London : Gollancz, 1976
hmc 823.809 CAD

Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet (ed.), Girls, boys, books, toys : gender in children's literature and culture, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
hmc 305.309 GIRL

Bob Dixon, Catching them young - Sex, race and class in children's fiction, London : Pluto Press, 1977
hmc 028.5 DIXO

Lois Keith, Take up thy bed and walk : death, disability and cure in classic fiction for girls, London : Women's Press, 2001
hmc 809.89282 KEIT

Robert J.Kirkpatrick, The encyclopaedia of school stories. Vol. 2, The encyclopaedia of boys’ school stories, Aldershot : Ashgate, 2000
href 823.009355 ENCY

U. C. Knoepflmacher, Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998
hmc 820.99282 KNOE

Lee Clark Mitchell, Westerns : making the man in fiction and film, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996
hmc 791.43627 MITC

Deborah O'Keefe, Good girl messages : how young women were misled by their favorite books, New York ; London : Continuum, 2000
hmc 809.9352 OKEE

Kimberley Reynolds, Girls only? : gender and popular children's fiction in Britain, 1880-1910, Hemel Hempstead : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990
hmc 028.5 REYN

Sue Sims, The encyclopaedia of school stories. Vol. 1, The encyclopaedia of girls’ school stories, Aldershot : Ashgate, 2000
href 823.009355 ENCY

John Stephens (ed.), Ways of being male: representing masculinities in children's literature and film, New York : Routledge, 2004
hmc 809.89282 WAYS

Roberta Seelinger Trites, Waking Sleeping Beauty : feminist voices in children's novels, Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1997
hmc 809.89282 TRIT

Edna Wignell (ed.), Boys whistle, girls sing : sexism in children's books, Richmond, Vic. : Primary Education (Publishing), 1976
hmc 370.19345 BOYS

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