Gender stereotyping in junior fiction
Monday, 20 August 2012 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Gender stereotyping is rife in junior fiction, but is it a necessary evil? Children’s bookseller and book buyer Daniela Perinac reports. When Kathy Kozlowski, children’s specialist at Readings Carlton, looks at the shelves of junior fiction in her store she sees the ‘stereotypical favourites’. ‘For boys it’s action, dragons, pirates...
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