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  • Sex role stereotypes and children's memory for story content

    Creator:
    Gentry, Sally A.
    Abstract:
    The present experiment examined children's memory for stereotypic and non-stereotypic sex role content in their reading material. Twenty-four male and twenty-four female fifth grade subjects read two short stories, each depicting a male and female character who exhibited an equal number of masculine and feminine traits and behaviors. Results of...
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    Dissertation
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    literature, or its effect upon their memory for story material. In an effort to address this issue, the

  • Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

    Creator:
    Furman, Kali
    Abstract:
    Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
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    Masters Thesis
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    access to, and representation in, literature. In the United States, due to systemic power and social

  • Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

    Creator:
    Singh, Jaspal K., 1951-
    Abstract:
    Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus of feminist studies in the western world since the Victorian Era. When Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892, she "met with consternation of disapproving males ...[and] it was virtually ignored for thirty years" (Kasmer 1)....
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Abstract approved: Fayad Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus