Feminine Subject in Children's Literature

<p>This book<i> </i>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.</p>