Good Girl Messages
Literary studies: general
Children, books and reading
Sex role in literature
English literature, history and criticism
American literature, history and criticism
Literature, history and criticism
Children's stories, American
Children's stories, English
Girls
Young women
Women and literature
Books and reading
Children's stories
History and criticism
"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 the most popular works of the period." "The final chapter reviews with abundant citations the enormo…
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