Research into young children's fiction about two-dad and two-mum families

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Oct 17 14:59:05 UTC 2008


At 3:30 PM +0100 10/17/08, Sunderland, Jane wrote:
>Can anyone help? A student of mine is writing a dissertation on the
>above topic, and we are surprised at the lack of academic literature on
>this topic (there's more on fiction for teens, but that's not what he's
>interested in).  Does anyone know any? (Is anyone perhaps working on
>this topic?)
>
>He'd also like to know of any examples of these books. He already has:
>
>One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dads, Blue Dads
>Asha's Mums
>Josh and Jaz have Three Mums
>
>If you can help, please contact Mark McGlashan (m.mcglashan at lancs.ac.uk)
>directly.
>
>Many thanks
>
>Jane Sunderland

Wasn't the classic (the bête noire of the right 
wing Christians) called _Heather Has Two 
Mommies_?  Must be almost 20 years old by now.

Larry Horn



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