Beyond the Image

Adolescent Girls, Reading, and Social Reality

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ID14971586
AutoresAngela E Hubler (autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen12
Número1
Páginas84-99
Fecha de publicación2000-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNWSA Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1040-0656 • E-ISSN: 1527-1889
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2979/nws.2000.12.1.84
OpenAlexW2114652996
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas21

While even some mass-market girls' fiction now depicts girls who triumph over sexism, the liberal feminism of many such novels presents a limited analysis of sexism. Like much feminist criticism of children's literature, the focus on positive images in these novels emerges from sex-role theory. Whether arguing that picture books socialize children into traditional roles or that children's literature can, by presenting non-traditional images, liberate them, the assumption that children simply mimic what they see fails to account for agency. I argue that feminist criticism of fiction for young readers must move beyond a focus on images to examine the way in which fiction allows readers to map social structure. Mildred Taylor's fiction does this, providing an analysis of racism and sexism as mutually constitutive and interdependent systems. The knowledge readers of such fiction might gain about social reality, even of structural determination, is paradoxically productive of individual agency, effective resistance, and even social transformation

Developmental psychology · Political science · Social reality · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies in Language · Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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