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From: Thaddeus Andracki <tandracki_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 10:59:43 -0500
With respect to Julie's point about maintaining hierarchies, I think it's interesting to consider what sociologists have begun referring to as
"androcentrism," a hypothesis that the contemporary social order is more about privileging masculinity than males per se. There was a photo of James Franco in drag, lovely captioned with a pithy saying on the point: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/06/12/androcentrism-its-okay-to-be-a-boy-but-being-a-girl/
I wonder if the relative lack of picture books that parallel Morris Micklewhite and Jacob's New Dress is because of a *perceived* surfeit of tomboys in children's literature. I think there's an assumption that "it's been done enough"—Little Women, Harriet the Spy, etc.—even though we're clearly struggling to come up with titles, especially for picture books.
Two titles that don't quite exactly parallel but is worth mentioning at least, it seems, is Yolen's Not all Princesses Wear Pink and Bone's Not Every Princess.
Cheers, Tad
On 7 May 2014 10:07, Julie Corsaro <juliealsc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 10:59:43 -0500
With respect to Julie's point about maintaining hierarchies, I think it's interesting to consider what sociologists have begun referring to as
"androcentrism," a hypothesis that the contemporary social order is more about privileging masculinity than males per se. There was a photo of James Franco in drag, lovely captioned with a pithy saying on the point: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/06/12/androcentrism-its-okay-to-be-a-boy-but-being-a-girl/
I wonder if the relative lack of picture books that parallel Morris Micklewhite and Jacob's New Dress is because of a *perceived* surfeit of tomboys in children's literature. I think there's an assumption that "it's been done enough"—Little Women, Harriet the Spy, etc.—even though we're clearly struggling to come up with titles, especially for picture books.
Two titles that don't quite exactly parallel but is worth mentioning at least, it seems, is Yolen's Not all Princesses Wear Pink and Bone's Not Every Princess.
Cheers, Tad
On 7 May 2014 10:07, Julie Corsaro <juliealsc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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Thaddeus Andracki
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate School of Library and Information Science | MS Student
Center for Children's Books | Outreach and Communications Coordinator
*Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books* | Reviewer
Undergraduate Library | Graduate Assistant
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