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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies
Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet bring together
twenty-two scholars to look closely at the complexities of
children's culture. "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?
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