Learning Outcomes
In the last decades, foreign theoretical approaches persist in connecting the study of literature, and the study of children's literature, with “gender”. These contemporary theoretical opinions and perceptions are analytically presented in this lesson, whilst continuously examining their adaptation on works of Greek children's literature, novels and fables. The student, via well-known literary texts which are pointed out to him/her, can easily acquaint him/herself with the theory and practice of this relatively new dimension in the criticism of children's literature. Specifically, the student must understand that gender differences are socially constructed. This is reflected very well within the literary texts. More specifically are analyzed the stereotypes for both female and male gender in folk and fairy tales and their newer versions (aimed at the reversal of outdated gender ideology), in elementary school textbooks, in picture books, in novels for children and young adults.
Course Content (Syllabus)
In the last decades, foreign theoretical approaches persist in connecting the study of literature, and the study of children's literature, with “gender”. These contemporary theoretical opinions and perceptions are analytically presented in this lesson, whilst continuously examining their adaptation on works of Greek children's literature, novels and fables. The student, via well-known literary texts which are pointed out to him/her, can easily acquaint him/herself with the theory and practice of this relatively new dimension in the criticism of children's literature. Specifically, the student must understand that gender differences are socially constructed. This is reflected very well within the literary texts. More specifically are analyzed the stereotypes for both female and male gender in folk and fairy tales and their newer versions (aimed at the reversal of outdated gender ideology), in elementary school textbooks, in picture books, in novels for children and young adults.
Additional bibliography for study
R. Bottigheimer: Grimm's Bad Girls and Bold Boys. The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales, Yale University Press, New Haven - London 1987.
P. Nodelman: «Children's Literature as Women's Writing», Children's Literature Association-Quarterly 13.1 (1988): 31-34.
L. Paul: Reading Other-Ways, The Thimble Press, Woodchester 1998.
R. Seelinger Trites: Waking Sleeping Beauty. Feminist Voices in Children’s Novels, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 1997.
P. Nodelman: «Making Boys Appear. The Masculinity of Children’s Fiction», Ways of Being Male. Representing Masculinities in Children’s Literature and Film (επιμέλεια J.Stephens), Routledge, New York - London 2002: 1-14.
Δ. Αναγνωστοπούλου: Αναπαραστάσεις του γυναικείου στη λογοτεχνία, Πατάκης, Αθήνα 2007.
B. Δεληγιάννη-Κουϊμτζή: «Θεωρίες για τις διαφορές των φύλων», Εκπαίδευση και Φύλο (επιμέλεια Β.Δεληγιάννη - Σ.Ζιώγου), Βάνιας, Θεσσαλονίκη 1994
Μ. Κανατσούλη: «Τύποι γυναικών και γυναικείες ‘φωνές’ στα βιβλία του δημοτικού σχολείου», Φύλο και σχολική πράξη (επιμέλεια Β.Δεληγιάννη - Σ. Ζιώγου), Βάνιας, Θεσσαλονίκη 1997: 303-313.
Ε. Μαραγκουδάκη: Εκπαίδευση και διάκριση των φύλων. Παιδικά αναγνώσματα στο νηπιαγωγείο, Οδυσσέας, Αθήνα 1993.
Α. Οικονομίδου: «Τελικά τα αγόρια κλαίνε; Έμφυλες ταυτότητες στη λογοτεχνία για μικρές ηλικίες: μια πρώτη προσέγγιση», Κείμενα 1(2004): 1-10.
Α. Aγγελοπούλου: Eλληνικά παραμύθια A'. Oι παραμυθοκόρες, Eστία, Αθήνα 2002.
Μ.Κανατσούλη: «Τη δίδαξαν να μένει σιωπηλή, να υπακούει να περιμένει…», περιοδικό Αναγνώστης, 2021 (για το Η Πηνελόπη της θάλασσας των Gema Sirvent & Raúl Guridi. Μετάφραση Μαριάννα Ψύχαλου, Μικρή Σελήνη 2021). Στο https://www.oanagnostis.gr/ti-didaxan-na-menei-siopili-na-ypakoyei-na-perimenei-tis-menis-kanatsoyli
Μ.Κανατσούλη: Η Μαύρη Γυναίκα στη Σύγχρονη Λογοτεχνία για Παιδιά, Ηλ. Περιοδικό Κείμενα/Keimena, Τεύχος 9, 2009. Στο: http://keimena.ece.uth.gr/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=142:p5t9&catid=53:tefxos9&Itemid=88