Girls, Boys, Books, Toys

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(10) Beverly Lyon Clark PART I / HISTORY Repudiating ``Sleeping Beauty'' 11(14) U. C. Knoepflmacher Child's Play as Woman's Peace Work: Maria Edgeworth's ``The Cherry Orchard,'' Historical Rebellion Narratives, and Contemporary Cultural Studies 25(15) Mitzi Myers ``These Two irreconcilable things---art and young girls'': The Case of the Girls' School Story 40(13) Mavis Reimer Romancing the Home: Gender, Empire, and the South Pacific 53(18) Claudia Marquis PART II / THEORY The Liberal Bias in Feminist Social Science Research on Children's Books 71(12) Roger Clark Heidi Kulkin Liam Clancy Coming ``to sing their being'': The Poetry of Grace Nichols 83(14) Lissa Paul Fictions of Difference: Contemporary Indian Stories for Children 97(15) Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Making the Front Page: Views of Women/Women's Views in the Picture Book 112(18) William Moebius Discourses of Femininity and the Intertextual Construction of Feminist Reading Positions 130(12) John Stephens Robyn McCallum Taking Over the Doll House: Domestic Desire and Nostalgia in Toy Narratives 142(12) Lois R. Kuznets Comforts No More: The Underside of Quilts in Children's Literature 154(15) Cheryl B. Torsney PART III / CULTURE A Bad Hair Day for G.I. Joe 169(14) Karen Klugman Imagining Dinosaurs 183(13) Susan Willis Grrrls and Dolls: Feminism and Female Youth Culture 196(14) Lynne Vallone An Arab Girl Draws Trouble 210(17) Allen Douglas Fedwa Malti-Douglas Just a Spoonful of Sugar? Anxieties of Gender and Class in ``Marry Poppins'' 227(16) Lori Kenschaft Notes 243(16) Works Cited 259(24) Contributors 283(6) Illustration Credits 289(2) Index 291