What Katy Read: Feminist RE-Readings of "Classic" Stories for Girls - Hardcover

Foster, Shirley; Simons, Judy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877454930 ISBN 13: 9780877454939

Verlag: University of Iowa Press, 1995

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Book by Foster Shirley Simons Judy

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From the first paragraph of the preface, I engaged with "What Katy Read" as a scholar, a reader, and a woman who nourished herself on the fiction passed on by my mother and grandmother. Shirley Foster and Judy Simons offer me a tour of my own history. They explain much of our overt shared culture as literate women as well as the covert, mysterious, painful messages we seem to share. In my mind, there is no better goal for a book. Clever, creative, and enriching without being hegemonic, patronizing, or demanding. Bonnie Sunstein" "From the first paragraph of the preface, I engaged with "What Katy Read" as a scholar, a reader, and a woman who nourished herself on the fiction passed on by my mother and grandmother. Shirley Foster and Judy Simons offer me a tour of my own history. They explain much of our overt shared culture as literate women as well as the covert, mysterious, painful messages we seem to share. In my mind, there is no better goal for a book. Clever, creative, and enriching without being hegemonic, patronizing, or demanding."--Bonnie Sunstein

Reseña del editor:

Written by women for children, girls' fiction has been doubly marginalized by the critical establishment, yet it remains a crucial element in most girls' formative literary experience. In their original and provocative analysis of texts written between 1850 and 1920 - including Little Women, What Katy Did, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Daisy Chain, The Railway Children, The Madcap of the School, and The Wide, Wide World - Foster and Simons examine what makes a classic and how such texts construct role models which both reflect and subvert contemporary ideologies of childhood. By applying twentieth-century feminist theory to this body of literature, What Katy Read uncovers a challenging and exciting new dimension to a previously ignored area. Through close readings of these eight North American and British novels, which have had a powerful impact on the development of literature for girls, Foster and Simons consider genres from the domestic myth to the school story, analyze the transgressive figure of the tomboy, and discuss ways in which superficially conventional texts implicitly undermine patterns of patriarchy. Their stimulating and innovative study will be essential reading for students of women's writing and children's literature alike.

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• Verlag: University of Iowa Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0877454930
• ISBN 13: 9780877454939
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 223