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Youth & Society, Vol. 36, No. 1, 102-125 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X03258241

Picture This

A Multicultural Feminist Analysis of Picture Books for Children

Roger Clark

Rhode Island College

Heather Fink

New England Center for Children

The authors provide a multicultural feminist analysis of picture books for children by looking at the illustrations and listening carefully to themes of oppression and resistance in 33 picture books that focus on characters that are on the powerless side of some powerless/powerful social dichotomy. The authors find many images that either depict oppression or celebrate difference. They also find stories that extol the virtues of cooperation among similarly oppressed others, cooperation among differently oppressed others, and escape. They annotate the books to provide some sense of the themes of oppression and resistance that appear in each of them.

Key Words: children’s books • multicultural feminism • liberal feminism


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