Questions to Ask:
What are your perceptions of gender stereotypes in these books?
In Popularity Papers, the author uses the search for popularity to highlight other themes. What are some of these themes?
Are there professions that are stereotypically male jobs that are missing in Girls A to Z?
Points to Consider:
Still issues with online feminist book clubs including lack of racial representation and anonymity.
Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture keypoints:
- the focus on the “gaps” between girls and boys, puts emphasis on gender differences
- this conflict – the relation of popular culture to school culture-is not a new problem
Chapter 3- Frogs and Snails and Feminist Tales keypoints:
- Can shift metaphors through which narratives are constructed
- Attempting to provide alternative relations of power and desire
- At the same time to relate these shifting images to the narrative structures that the children already understand.
- These pre-existing structures of the traditional narrative can prevent a new form of narrative from being heard, our goal is to open up this conversation.
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