Girls, Texts, Cultures - Paperback

by Clare Bradford (Editor), Mavis Reimer (Editor)

This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls' experience. It brings together scholars from girls' studies and children's literature, fields that have traditionally worked separately, to showcase the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies.

Author Biography

Clare Bradford is a professor of literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches and researches mainly children's literature. Her 2001 book, Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature, won both the Children's Literature Association Book Award and the IRSCL Award of the International Research Society for Children's Literature. Clare Bradford's publications have appeared in Canadian Children's Literature, Children's Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, Papers, and The Children's Literature Association Quarterly.Mavis Reimer is Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood, director of the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures, and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. She is co-author with Perry Nodelman of the third edition of The Pleasures of Children's Literature and editor of a collection of essays on Anne of Green Gables, entitled Such a Simple Little Tale.