"Is This a Boy or a Girl?": Rethinking Sex-Role Representation in Caldecott Medal-Winning Picturebooks, 1938-2011

Autor/inn/en	Crisp, Thomas; Hiller, Brittany
Titel	"Is This a Boy or a Girl?": Rethinking Sex-Role Representation in Caldecott Medal-Winning Picturebooks, 1938-2011
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 42 (2011) 3, S.196-212 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-011-9128-1
Schlagwörter	Picture Books; Sex Role; Childrens Literature; Femininity; Masculinity; Sexual Identity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Picture book; Bilderbuch; Geschlechterrolle; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Männlichkeit; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität
Abstract	A number of previous studies have addressed gender role-stereotyping in Caldecott Award-winning picturebooks. Building upon the extensive scholarship examining representations of females in Caldecott books, this current study offers a critical investigation of how gender is represented in Caldecott Medal-winning literature from 1938 to 2011 by exploring the ways in which "femininity" and "masculinity," biological sex, and gender are constructed in these texts. The investigators briefly address author and illustrator gender and the representations of males and females as characters or images in pictures and text before departing from previous scholarship to offer a rereading of books that feature "ungendered" leading characters, those that are not identified in the text as being either "male" or "female" and are therefore open to the interpretation of individual readers. By resisting cultural cues and normative constructions of gender and biological sex, these ungendered depictions extend the range of possible ways in which readers may see themselves or those in their lives represented in Caldecott Medal-winning picturebooks. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10