The Negative Image of Women in Childrens Literature.

Abstract

shoe, to provide day care centers for her many children while she competes with men for jobs, to change the abortion laws so that she wont have any more childrenthus freeing her erotic zones. The growing militant movement of emancipated women is no longer content to be the passive implement of men. Picketing beauty contests, condemning Playboy magazine, lobbying for legislative reform, today's woman is sensitive to any reference that might indicate her inferiority to a man. In their struggle for equality, women are fighting centuries of tradition, a tradition that has continually relegated women to an inferior position. They've been omitted from history books. In literature they have been denigrated, as evidenced by these quotable quotes: