The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature
Author: Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1136699856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature texts to demonstrate how a feminist analysis opens up textual possibilities that may be applied to works of children's fiction in general, extending the range of textual engagements in children's literature through the application of a new poststructural critical apparati.