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Good Girl Messages How Young Women Were Misled by Their Favorite Books
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Good Girl Messages How Young Women Were Misled by Their Favorite Books Paperback - 2001

by O'keefe, Deborah


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For much of the 20th century, books for children encouraged girls to be weak, submissive, and fearful. This work discusses such traits, both blatantly and subtly reinforced, in many of the most popular works of the period. Quoting a variety of passages, Deborah O'Keefe illustrates the typical behaviour of fictional girls - most of whom were passive and immobile while other girls were actually invalids. They all engaged in approved girlish activities: deferred to elders, observed the proprieties, and, in the end, accepted conventional suitors. Even rare feisty tomboys like Jo in Little Women eventually gave up their dreams and their independence.

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  • Title Good Girl Messages How Young Women Were Misled by Their Favorite Books
  • Author O'keefe, Deborah
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 212
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, London
  • Date August 2001
  • ISBN 9780826413697

About the author

Deborah O'Keefe is the author of Good Girl Messages: How Young Women Were Misled by Their Favorite Books (Continuum, 2000); Readers in Wonderland: The Liberating Worlds of Fantasy Fiction from Dorothy to Harry Potter (Continuum 2003); and articles in the New York Times and other publications. She has degrees from Smith, Cornell, and Columbia, and has taught at Vassar College and at Manhattanville College. She lives in Chappaqua, New York.
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