Publications

Publication details [#43104]

Wharton, Sue. 2005. Invisible Females, Incapable Males: Gender Construction in a Children’s Reading Scheme. Language & Education 19 (3) : 238–251.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

children's book | discourse analysis | gender | reading | representational structure

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper employs two complementary discourse analysis approaches to explore gender representation in an early children's reading scheme in the UK, and demonstrates how they offer very different views on male and female gender.