two requests for research pointers

[Carla Swift]

_From Mouse to Mermaid:  The Politics of Film, Gender and Culture_ by Bell,
Haas, and Sells  may also offer some insights into gender characterizations
in children's stories.


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From: Alexa Champion <amchampion at HOME.COM>
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Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: two requests for research pointers


> Also, it seems to me that the Lippi-Green article about Disney characters
> covers some gender issues.  I don't have the full cite in front of me, but
> it is an excellent article.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Amy L Sheldon <asheldon at MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU>
> To: <FLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: two requests for research pointers
>
>
> Alma Graham has a chapter "The Making of a Nonsexist Dictionary" in Thorne
> & Henley, 1975, _Language and Sex_ in which she did word counts in
> children's books - pronoun counts for example - and found more references
> to males than females. This was in the context of making some changes to
> the _American Heritage Dictionary_.
>
> > Miss Horn,
> >
> > I'm going to do a research about language differences
> > between sexes to, but mostly from a syntactic point of
> > view and conversation analysis. So, if you would
> > receive any suggestions about this (also in children
> > books), could you please mail them to me also.
> > Thanks in advance
> > Eva Vanhoorne
> >
> >
> > --- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> a écrit:
> > > Hi.  For two of the students in my Language, Sex &
> > > Gender class I was
> > > wondering if any listees could point me to relevant
> > > recent research.
> > >
> > > (2)  Another student is interested in exploring
> > > language and gender issues
> > > in the context of children's books.  She's thinking
> > > of a doing a
> > > quantitative study and would like to know of any
> > > earlier work in this
> > > (rather broadly defined) domain.
> > >
> > > Thanks much for any suggestions you can provide.
> > >
> > > larry horn
> >
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