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From: Gawel, Richard <Richard.Gawel_at_penton.com>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 13:07:52 +0000
I'm not familiar with many picture books about gender roles, but Andrea Beaty's "Rosie Revere, Engineer" is excellent. It's about a girl who likes to invent things and dreams of building something that can fly. In fact, Rosie's gender isn't even an issue. She isn't straining against some expectation that "girls don't do that." (Her only conflict seems to be that, well, her inventions don't always work so well…) Her interest in gizmos and gadgets is quite acceptable and not-noteworthy, which is encouraging in its own way.
Rich Gawel
Julie made the observation that we seemed to have a princess theme going. I'd like to carry it one step further and ask: Does every picture book about a girl who doesn't conform to traditional gender roles deal with a princess? Has "princess" become our definition of femininity? Is that what we expect traditional girls to aspire to, and no traditional girls to rebel against? What about girls who just don't like to play with dolls or jump rope (two activ= ities that bored me as a child)?
I can think of 35-40 year old picture books from feminist presses such as A Train for Jane and In Christina's Toolbox, but are there any modern equivalents?
--KT
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Received on Thu 08 May 2014 08:08:10 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 13:07:52 +0000
I'm not familiar with many picture books about gender roles, but Andrea Beaty's "Rosie Revere, Engineer" is excellent. It's about a girl who likes to invent things and dreams of building something that can fly. In fact, Rosie's gender isn't even an issue. She isn't straining against some expectation that "girls don't do that." (Her only conflict seems to be that, well, her inventions don't always work so well…) Her interest in gizmos and gadgets is quite acceptable and not-noteworthy, which is encouraging in its own way.
Rich Gawel
Julie made the observation that we seemed to have a princess theme going. I'd like to carry it one step further and ask: Does every picture book about a girl who doesn't conform to traditional gender roles deal with a princess? Has "princess" become our definition of femininity? Is that what we expect traditional girls to aspire to, and no traditional girls to rebel against? What about girls who just don't like to play with dolls or jump rope (two activ= ities that bored me as a child)?
I can think of 35-40 year old picture books from feminist presses such as A Train for Jane and In Christina's Toolbox, but are there any modern equivalents?
--KT
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