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From: Claudia Pearson <pearsoncrz_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:46:39 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
I think you nailed it with regard to mainstream books, the kind of stuff that gets recommended.
For a good twist on this I love FRANKLIN DELANO DONUTHEAD
Great characterization not only of the boy mc and his friend who is a girl, but the mom in the story.
Claudia
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From: Roxanne Feldman Sent: Aug 16, 2013 12:03 AM To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" Subject:
Yet another gender roles question...
Collective wisdom on the list: do you find that there are way more Girls in books portrayed as tough kids, doing stuff that traditionally assigned to males than Boys in books portrayed as gentle, sensitive, more thoughtful (and NOT being singled out because of these traits), doing things that are traditionally female? Yet another example from the same S S presentation: there were at least two books coming out this Fall from S S that specifically address "How to Be A Girl" successfully -- from mannerism, to styling, to working hard, to making unconventional choices, etc. But, of course, as expected, we didn't hear anything like that for young male readers. We are still concentrating on How to help Girls succeed but how about all the Boys? Are they presumed to have role models and conventional wisdom embedded in their daily lives and thus do not "need any help" from experts or books to learn how to establish successful relationships and build successful and meaningful lives -- while, I suspect, in reality, boy s could be as lost and in need of guidance and wisdom spelled out for them as their counterparts in the other gender. The notion that All Boys are Rough and Tough and enjoy Bathroom Humors and Silly Antics so let's just give them a lot of those in books -- picture books, early readers, chapter books, middle grade, so on and so forth, is fundamentally gender-boxed-in. Am I off the mark?
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Received on Fri 16 Aug 2013 11:46:39 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:46:39 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
I think you nailed it with regard to mainstream books, the kind of stuff that gets recommended.
For a good twist on this I love FRANKLIN DELANO DONUTHEAD
Great characterization not only of the boy mc and his friend who is a girl, but the mom in the story.
Claudia
-----Original Message-----
From: Roxanne Feldman Sent: Aug 16, 2013 12:03 AM To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" Subject:
Yet another gender roles question...
Collective wisdom on the list: do you find that there are way more Girls in books portrayed as tough kids, doing stuff that traditionally assigned to males than Boys in books portrayed as gentle, sensitive, more thoughtful (and NOT being singled out because of these traits), doing things that are traditionally female? Yet another example from the same S S presentation: there were at least two books coming out this Fall from S S that specifically address "How to Be A Girl" successfully -- from mannerism, to styling, to working hard, to making unconventional choices, etc. But, of course, as expected, we didn't hear anything like that for young male readers. We are still concentrating on How to help Girls succeed but how about all the Boys? Are they presumed to have role models and conventional wisdom embedded in their daily lives and thus do not "need any help" from experts or books to learn how to establish successful relationships and build successful and meaningful lives -- while, I suspect, in reality, boy s could be as lost and in need of guidance and wisdom spelled out for them as their counterparts in the other gender. The notion that All Boys are Rough and Tough and enjoy Bathroom Humors and Silly Antics so let's just give them a lot of those in books -- picture books, early readers, chapter books, middle grade, so on and so forth, is fundamentally gender-boxed-in. Am I off the mark?
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http://www.fairrosa.info http://fairrosa.wordpress.com
Received on Fri 16 Aug 2013 11:46:39 AM CDT
