Gender by the Book: 21st Century French Children's Literature

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dc.contributor.authorFette, Julieen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-06T20:10:55Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-11-06T20:10:55Zen_US
dc.date.issued2024en_US
dc.description.abstractGender by the Book investigates the gender representations that French children’s literature transmits to readers today. Using an interdisciplinary, mixed methods approach, this book grounds its literary analysis in a socio-historical examination of three key institutions – libraries, book clubs, and subscription magazines – that circulate reading material to children. It shows how French policies, cultural beliefs, and market forces influence the content of children’s literature, including tensions between State support for unprofitable artistic endeavors and a belief in children’s right to high-quality products on the one hand, and suspicion of activism as anathema to creativity and fear of losing boy readers on the other. In addition, the notion of universalism, which asserts that equality is best achieved when society is blind to differences, thwarts a diverse and equitable array of literary representations. Nevertheless, conditions are favorable for 21st-century French children’s publishers to offer a robust body of richly entertaining egalitarian literature for children.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFette, Julie. "Gender by the Book: 21st Century French Children's Literature." (2024) Taylor & Francis: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003457794.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalGender-by-the-Book_24_11_06_12_32_47en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.53288/0361.1.00en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781003457794en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/118012en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_US
dc.titleGender by the Book: 21st Century French Children's Literatureen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
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