The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature

This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children''s literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws 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, extending the range of textual engagements in children''s literature through the application of a new poststructural critical apparati.