Good Girl Messages: How Young Women Were Misled by their Favorite Books
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Book Description
Referencing a range of books, O'Keefe illustrates the typical behavior of fictional girl characters and the impact this has on the self-esteem and self reliance of the young girls who read these books. For much of the twentieth century, books for children encouraged girls to be weak, submissive, and fearful. Good Girl Messages discusses such traits, both blatantly and subtly reinforced, in many of... More
Book Information
Publisher | Continuum |
Binding | Paperback (4 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 212 |
ISBN-10 | 0826413692 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0826413697 |
Publication Date | 08/01/2001 |
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