From: Pat Austin <paustin>
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 12:12:49 -0500

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JOURNAL OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Themed Issue: Feminist Approaches to Children?s Literature Fall 2002

Deadline: February 1, 2002

 The kinds of stories they hear, read, and discuss shape the lives of girls and boys, young women and men. They also influence how the two sexes see and treat one another and indeed help create and maintain gender roles. We invite submissions that describe the creation and selection of books for youth which celebrate the female experience from a multitude of perspectives, counteract gender stereotypes, and realistically portray the roles and expectations of females and males in diverse cultures and circumstances. How should such books be shared? What types of exploration, investigation, and discussion of literature can teachers provide in order to raise students? awareness of gender issues? How would these experiences be facilitated from children?s earliest days of school through the preparation of teachers in teacher education programs? Finally, how might the sharing of such stories lead to action in classrooms at all levels? Can the sharing and selection of children?s literature lead to the abolition of gender?fined categories? Is this a desirable goal? We invite readers to thoughtfully consider these questions and to describe their own experiences with these issues as teachers and learners.

Send six copies of the manuscript to:

Patricia Austin, Co?itor University of New Orleans Department of Curriculum & Instruction New Orleans, LA 70148
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