The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature

The Feminine Subject in Children's Literaturebuilds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies.Christie Wilkie-Stibbsdraws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature texts to demonstrate how a feminist analysis opens up textual possibilities that may be applied to works of children's fiction in general. Her goal is to extend the range of textual engagements in children's literature through the application of a new poststructural critical apparati.

Christine Wilkie-Stibbs lectures in children's literature, critical theory, and women's writing in the institute of Education at the University of Warwick.