In this study, Kimberley reynolds sets up parallel studies of boys' and girls' fiction and, drawing on current critical theory, explores the relationship between notions of gender difference and social practice. She concludes that inequalities of power can be reproduced through male and female reading habits esablished in childhood. "Girls Only?" also considers the social, historical and economic conditions of the time in relation to the production of works of popular fiction. The breadth of the argument makes it possible to see how publishing practices, established at the end of the last century in response to specific circumstances, have been perpetuated. The result is that children's fiction (a significant proportion of children's experience of language) reconfirms notions of passive femininity and dominant masculinity in its young readers.
- ISBN10 0710812248
- ISBN13 9780710812247
- Publish Date 1 August 1991 (first published March 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Prentice-Hall
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English