Toward a Multicultural Feminist Perspective on Fiction for Young Adults

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ID2330252
AuthorsRoger Clark (0000-0003-4167-6317, Rhode Island College), Heidi Kulkin (Rhode Island College)
Year1996
Volume27
Issue3
Pages291-312
Publication date1996-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueYouth & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0044-118X • E-ISSN: 1552-8499
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0044118x96027003002
OpenAlexW2033400698
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

Feminist social science investigations of children's books over the past 20 years have employed the liberal feminist assumptions that marked the paradigmatic study by Weitzman, Eifler, Hokada, and Ross. The authors illustrate the value of a multicultural feminist approach to children's literature by 'listening' to themes of oppression and resistance in 16 recent young-adult novels about non-White, non-American, or nonheterosexual characters. Their findings point to a greater variety of such themes than they might have heard if they had used only a liberal feminist lens in their reading of children's books. The findings also lead to elaborations of current multicultural and global feminist theories themselves

Active listening · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Multicultural education · Multiculturalism · Oppression · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · White (mutation) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language

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