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Publication details [#41009]

Singleton, Ellen. 2004. Grace and Dorothy: Collisions of Femininity and Physical Activity in Two Early Twentieth-Century Book Series for Girls. Children's Literature in Education 35 (2) : 113–134.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Springer

Annotation

This paper argues that the continuous iterations of femininity in the early twentieth-century adventure stories, involving the featured characters of Dorothy Dixon and Grace Harlowe, back the ideological attribution of maleness to physical skill and adventure.