Fictional fathers: gender representation in children's fiction

Title: Fictional fathers: gender representation in children's fiction
Creator: Michaels, Wendy; Gibbs, Donna
Relation: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature Vol. 12, Issue 3, p. 35-45
Relation: http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/scca
Publisher: Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2002
Description: Current research into the construction of masculinities rejects the notion of sex roles as 'pre-existing norms which are passively internalized and enacted' and seeks instead to work from the assumption that gender is constructed in social interaction, seeing both masculinity and femininity as 'inherently relational concepts' (Connell 1995, p.35; p.44). Fiction is part of the context contributing towards these constructions as it presents ideas about, and models for, the possibilities of the gendered self and the shaping of identities. What is read by children and adolescents has a potential role in this process, or as Mem Fox (1993, p.84) so clearly states, 'Everything we read...constructs us, makes us who we are, by presenting our image of ourselves as girls and women, boys and men.'
Subject: masculinity; fathers; gender; children; fiction
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34826
Identifier: uon:3727
Identifier: ISSN:1034-9243
Language: eng
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