Princess Picture Books: Content and Messages

Dale, Lourdes P.; Higgins, Brittany E.; Pinkerton, Nick; Couto, Michelle; Mansolillo, Victoria; Weisinger, Nica; Flores, Marci

doi:10.1080/02568543.2016.1143415

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“…Also, we learned that according to pre-service teachers, modern picture books with female characters were less concerned with protagonists' body change. There are previous studies on unattainable and unrealistic body image and body posture advertised as beauty role models on TV programs, sports, social media, as well as in picture books (Ashley, 2013;Dale et al, 2016;Moreno, 2012;Spitz, 1996). According to Dittmar et al (2006) girls' body criticism and dissatisfaction start to emerge at possibly from 5 years onward.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring Pre-Service Teachers’ Perspectives: Gender and Gender Representation across Human Protagonists in Picture Books

Haghanikar¹,

Jiang²,

Tomek³

et al. 2022

INT J EDUC METHODOL

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Gender is ever present in education preparation, school materials, curriculum, and school systems. To improve our knowledge about different facets of gender and the extent to which the depiction of gender has changed over time in picture books, there is a need to dig beneath the surface of questions about gender representation in picture books. Given that in-service teachers have proximity to approximately 75 million K-12 students, how in-service teachers think about gender, gender representation, and their own experiences with gender socialization have important implications on how K-12 students think, act, and feel about gender. In this study, we focused on teachers’ responses to a semester-long assignment about the selection and review of picture books. Specifically, we captured teachers’ perceptions on gendered images evidenced in picture books and to what extent there are changes (i.e., economical, emotional, physical, political, and social) in the central character throughout the book. We also explored if perceived changes were different based on the gender of the characters. Teachers reported four types of changes among the characters in the picture book. Emotionally changes in the books’ central characters emerged as the most commonly reported change among our participants.</p>

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Pre-Service Teachers’ Perspectives: Gender and Gender Representation across Human Protagonists in Picture Books

Haghanikar¹,

Jiang²,

Tomek³

et al. 2022

INT J EDUC METHODOL

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“…Concerning these, Ariyanto (2018), Key in Turner-Bowker (1996) Lee (2019), and Lee and Mahmoudi-Gahrouei (2020) argue that males are mostly described as the dominant, active characters, compared to passive females, ones with peripheral roles. Dale et al (2016) also showcased that, in 58 princess picture books, gender stereotypes are present in the books-the female characters (princesses) were more likely to be nurturing, in distress, naïve, and homemakers than male characters (the princes).…”

Section: Gender and The Related Researchesmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Researches on children's picture books are abundant (see Dale et al, 2016;Dallacqua, 2019;DeWitt et al, 2013;Filipović, 2018). However, they came to the surface after the 1970s (see Davis, 1984;Weitzman, 1972) due to the trend before the 1970s.…”

Section: Gender and The Related Researchesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Representation in Perpustakaan Intan

Setiarini

Supiastutik

Kusumayanti

et al. 2021

Pioneer. J. Lang. Lit

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There is little research on gender-related children's picture books in Indonesia. In this article, we discuss the disclosure of gender representation in a picture book entitled Perpustakaan Intan. The high number appearances of women, the actions pinned on women, and the clothes displayed in both text and images are materials for visualizing women and men. Previous studies have revealed that men dominate the number of appearances in books. However, this book displays women more often than men. On the one hand, this raises the question of whether this means women are in power, and on the other hand, men are portrayed as powerless. Utilizing the multimodality approach, the results show that although women appear more in the narrative, women are still represented as less powerful.

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“…Princess picture books published by Walt Disney has raised a concern of how girl learn about being a girl. A study conducted by Dale et al [7] criticized the majority content of the princess picture books which are only concerned with finding husband and achieving perfect body so that she can be valued by others. Some Islamic publishers, including Mizan publish princess story books following the trends.…”

Section: Hadıth (Sayings and Traditions Of The Prophet Muhammad And Hmentioning

confidence: 99%