Acknowledgments

Introduction

Beverly Lyon Clark

PART I / HISTORY

Repudiating ``Sleeping Beauty''

U. C. Knoepflmacher

Child's Play as Woman's Peace Work: Maria Edgeworth's ``The Cherry Orchard,'' Historical Rebellion Narratives, and Contemporary Cultural Studies

Mitzi Myers

``These Two irreconcilable things---art and young girls'': The Case of the Girls' School Story

Mavis Reimer

Romancing the Home: Gender, Empire, and the South Pacific

Claudia Marquis

PART II / THEORY

The Liberal Bias in Feminist Social Science Research on Children's Books

Roger Clark

Heidi Kulkin

Liam Clancy

Coming ``to sing their being'': The Poetry of Grace Nichols

Lissa Paul

Fictions of Difference: Contemporary Indian Stories for Children

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Making the Front Page: Views of Women/Women's Views in the Picture Book

William Moebius

Discourses of Femininity and the Intertextual Construction of Feminist Reading Positions

John Stephens

Robyn McCallum

Taking Over the Doll House: Domestic Desire and Nostalgia in Toy Narratives

Lois R. Kuznets

Comforts No More: The Underside of Quilts in Children's Literature

Cheryl B. Torsney

PART III / CULTURE

A Bad Hair Day for G.I. Joe

Karen Klugman

Imagining Dinosaurs

Susan Willis

Grrrls and Dolls: Feminism and Female Youth Culture

Lynne Vallone

An Arab Girl Draws Trouble

Allen Douglas

Fedwa Malti-Douglas

Just a Spoonful of Sugar? Anxieties of Gender and Class in ``Marry Poppins''

Lori Kenschaft

Notes

Works Cited

Contributors

Illustration Credits

Index