Beverly Lyon Clark

Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture Beverly Lyon Clark

Commendation Quotes:"Girls, Boys, Books, Toys is an indispensable text for anyone engaged with the cultural and postfeminist analysis of literature. It is also an effectively developed meditation on a postfeminist hermeneutic, and a full-bodied, big-hearted and brazen insistence upon the genius of children's literature." -- Michael Joseph, Rutgers UniversityReview Quotes: "This book is extremely valuable to newcomers to the fields of children's literature and cultural studies, and no scholar of children's literature will want to be without it." -- Elizabeth Keyser, editor of Children's LiteratureReview Quotes: "Clark describes the book as a 'sampler' of the many cloths of feminist writing. It is theoretically sophisticated and engaging on many levels." -- Kenneth Kidd, Michigan Quarterly ReviewReview Quotes:"Clark describes the book as a 'sampler' of the many cloths of feminist writing. It is theoretically sophisticated and engaging on many levels." -- Kenneth Kidd, Michigan Quarterly ReviewReview Quotes:"This book is extremely valuable to newcomers to the fields of children's literature and cultural studies, and no scholar of children's literature will want to be without it." -- Elizabeth Keyser, editor of Children's LiteratureDescription for Sales People: No previous collection of criticism has focused on gender in the broad range of children's literature. No previous collection has embraced both children's literature and material culture. Commendation Quotes: Girls, Boys, Books, Toys is an indispensable text for anyone engaged with the cultural and postfeminist analysis of literature. It is also an effectively developed meditation on a postfeminist hermeneutic, and a full-bodied, big-hearted and brazen insistence upon the genius of children's literature. Review Quotes: Clark describes the book as a 'sampler' of the many cloths of feminist writing. It is theoretically sophisticated and engaging on many levels.--Kenneth Kidd "Michigan Quarterly Review "Commendation Quotes: "Girls, Boys, Books, Toys" is an indispensable text for anyone engaged with the cultural and postfeminist analysis of literature. It is also an effectively developed meditation on a postfeminist hermeneutic, and a full-bodied, big-hearted and brazen insistence upon the genius of children's literature. Review Quotes: This book is extremely valuable to newcomers to the fields of children's literature and cultural studies, and no scholar of children's literature will want to be without it.--Elizabeth Keyser, editor of "Children's Literature"Commendation Quotes: This book is extremely valuable to newcomers to the fields of children's literature and cultural studies, and no scholar of children's literature will want to be without it. Biographical Note: Beverly Lyon Clark is a professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She is the author of "Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys." Her essays have appeared in "New Literary History, Philological Quarterly, Chronicle of Higher Education, Women's Review of Books," and other journals. Margaret R. Higonnet is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. She is the former editor of "Children's Literature." Her articles have appeared in "Poetics Today, Enfance, Revue des livres pour enfants," and other journals. Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 12/03/1999 pg. 94 (EAN 9780801860539, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Clark, Beverly Lyon Beverly Lyon Clark is the A. Howard Meneely Professor of English at Wheaton College and coeditor (with Margaret Higonnet) of Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture, also available from Johns Hopkins. Contributor Bio:  Higonnet, Margaret R Beverly Lyon Clark is a professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She is the author of Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys. Her essays have appeared in New Literary History, Philological Quarterly, Chronicle of Higher Education, Women's Review of Books, and other journals. Margaret R. Higonnet is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. She is the former editor of Children's Literature. Her articles have appeared in Poetics Today, Enfance, Revue des livres pour enfants, and other journals.