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From: Robin Gibson <bkmuse7_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 09:30:43 -0400
I'm still thinking about picture books, but for longer books there is Marty McGuire -- a girl who likes to catch frogs and dig worms, not play princess (like her friends/frenemies do -- there is a tension in the books.) Robin
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Kathleen T.Horning
<horning_at_education.wisc.edu> wrote:
> 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 abo= ut a girl who doesn't conform to traditional gender roles deal with a princ= ess? Has "princess" become our definition of femininity? Is that what we ex= pect traditional girls to aspire to, and no traditional girls to rebel agai= nst? What about girls who just don't like to play with dolls or jump rope (= two activ=3D
> 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 equi= valents?
>
> --KT
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Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 09:30:43 -0400
I'm still thinking about picture books, but for longer books there is Marty McGuire -- a girl who likes to catch frogs and dig worms, not play princess (like her friends/frenemies do -- there is a tension in the books.) Robin
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Kathleen T.Horning
<horning_at_education.wisc.edu> wrote:
> 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 abo= ut a girl who doesn't conform to traditional gender roles deal with a princ= ess? Has "princess" become our definition of femininity? Is that what we ex= pect traditional girls to aspire to, and no traditional girls to rebel agai= nst? What about girls who just don't like to play with dolls or jump rope (= two activ=3D
> 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 equi= valents?
>
> --KT
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