Gender in twentieth-century children's books: Patterns of disparity in titles and central characters

Gender and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 197-226

  McCabe, Janice ^a   Fairchild, Emily ^b   Grauerholz, Liz ^c   Pescosolido, Bernice A ^d   Tope, Daniel ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence children; culture; media mass communications

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953275226     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243211398358     Document Type: Article

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