Waking Sleeping Beauty : feminist voices in children's novels
A literary criticism focussing on the role of female characters in children's literature from the past and present
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 170 pages ; 24 cm
9780877455905, 9780877455912, 9781587292392, 0877455902, 0877455910, 1587292394
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Defining the feminist children's novel
Subverting stereotypes : rejecting traditional gender roles
Subjectivity as a gender issue : metaphors and intertextuality
Transforming feminine silence : pro/claiming female voices
Re/constructing the female writer : subjectivity in the feminist Künstlerroman
Female interdependency : literal and metaphoric sisterhood
Refuting Freud : mother/daughter relationships
Metafiction and the politics of identity : narrativity, subjectivity, and community
Afterword : Feminist pedagogy and children's literature