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From: goldschp tds.net <goldschp_at_tds.net>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 09:36:41 -0500
Maybe because a girl who wants to wear boy's clothes doesn't elicit the widespread condemnation that boys wanted to wear dresses (and play with dolls) elicit? It's harder to write a dramatic story about a modern girl who doesn't like to wear (or do) "girlish" things, because society accepts
(in a relative sense) that girls don't always have to fit that mold. But people have a much bigger problem with boys in frilly dresses, so it makes for a more interesting story.
When I was growing up (in the 70s), there was a book about an Edwardian-era girl who wanted to wear pants, but her parents solved her demand by letting her wear a sailor-suit dress.
Paul Goldschmidt
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Kathleen T.Horning < horning_at_education.wisc.edu> wrote:
> It's interesting that to date all of these books deal with boys, even
> though there are also girls who hate wearing dresses and girly clothes, and
> girls who feel from an early age that they are truly boys in the wrong
> body. Why do you think this is? ( And if you can think of any comparable
> books about girls, let us know.)
>
> -KT
>
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Received on Wed 07 May 2014 09:37:39 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 09:36:41 -0500
Maybe because a girl who wants to wear boy's clothes doesn't elicit the widespread condemnation that boys wanted to wear dresses (and play with dolls) elicit? It's harder to write a dramatic story about a modern girl who doesn't like to wear (or do) "girlish" things, because society accepts
(in a relative sense) that girls don't always have to fit that mold. But people have a much bigger problem with boys in frilly dresses, so it makes for a more interesting story.
When I was growing up (in the 70s), there was a book about an Edwardian-era girl who wanted to wear pants, but her parents solved her demand by letting her wear a sailor-suit dress.
Paul Goldschmidt
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Kathleen T.Horning < horning_at_education.wisc.edu> wrote:
> It's interesting that to date all of these books deal with boys, even
> though there are also girls who hate wearing dresses and girly clothes, and
> girls who feel from an early age that they are truly boys in the wrong
> body. Why do you think this is? ( And if you can think of any comparable
> books about girls, let us know.)
>
> -KT
>
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