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"Old-Fashioned and Forward-Looking": Neo-Liberalism and Nostalgia in the Daring Books for Girls
Get PDFIn this paper, we examine The Daring Book for Girls and its follow-ups for their constructions of gender. We suggest that, as examples of how neo-liberalism finds its way into notions of proper girlhood, the books provide intentional and unintentional "lessons" to their readers in how to perform themselves in these times. In both the American and the Australian edition of the initial text, girls are instructed in complex ways to be the right kind of girl: enterprising with a do-it-yourself (DIY) attitude, tolerant of diversity, and nature-loving. Through the constructions of girls as "good citizens" by rules and strict boundaries, the books present to readers a highly nostalgic version of girlhood while simultaneously serving as a pedagogical manual for neo-liberal times.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2012.000
Noel Streatfeild’s Second-Hand Shoes: Reading The Whicharts against Its Juvenilization Ballet Shoes
No full textA case study of juvenilization, this essay reads Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 juvenile novel Ballet Shoes against its source text, Streatfeild’s 1931 theatrical novel The Whicharts. An analysis of how the author reworked “unsuitable” material for young readers reveals Ballet Shoes as more than a bowdlerized version of the adult novel. The rewriting of references to work and to sexuality in The Whicharts produces sophisticated and self-aware origin stories, nuanced and historically specific representations of work in its cultural context, and non-judgmental representations of diverse types of sexuality and family relationships in Ballet Shoes.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2012.001
After Jacqueline Rose, What Is Left? The Play of Identity and Representation in Russell Hoban’s Turtle Diary
Get PDFThe paper addresses a problem many readers have with Jacqueline Rose's The Case of Peter Pan, or The Impossibility of Children's Fiction: that, while Rose does not mean writing for children should stop, she leaves little indication as to how it and the work around it might actually proceed. Russell Hoban's adult novel Turtle Diary is read as a response to Rose. Through its children's author protagonist, Hoban demonstrates that, while impossibility is intrinsic to relations with the Other, its privileging as a critical concern impairs a capacity to respond to the Other as a subject of empathy and ethics.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2012.000
How to Make Good Subjects: Guiding Girls, Creating Citizens, Constructing Consumers
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“I am content with Canada”: Canadian Girls at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Writing from the Outside: Representations of the Outsider in Recent Canadian Fiction for Adolescents
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Crook, Connie Brummel. No Small Victory. Markham: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2010.
Foon, Dennis. Double or Nothing. Rev. ed. Richmond Hill: Annick, 2011.
Rainfield, Cheryl. Hunted. Markham: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2012.
Ravel, Edeet. Held. Richmond Hill: Annick, 2011.
Yee, Paul. The Secret Keepers. Vancouver: Tradewind, 2011.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2012.001
Can the Girl Guide Speak? The Perils and Pleasures of Looking for Children’s Voices in Archival Research
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“It’s the kids who made this happen”: The Occupy Movement as Youth Movement
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