Table of Contents:
  • Defining the feminist children's novel
  • Subverting stereotypes : rejecting traditional gender roles
  • Subjectivity as a gender issue : metaphors and intertextuality
  • Transforming feminine silence : pro/claiming female voices
  • Re/constructing the female writer : subjectivity in the feminist Künstlerroman
  • Female interdependency : literal and metaphoric sisterhood
  • Refuting Freud : mother/daughter relationships
  • Metafiction and the politics of identity : narrativity, subjectivity, and community
  • Afterword : Feminist pedagogy and children's literature.