Provides students and researchers with the support needed for advanced study in the core areas of English language and applied linguistics. This book presents an introduction to language and gender, includes diverse work from a range of cultural contexts, represents a range of methodological approac[...]

This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. Girls' and boys' reading itself is looked at, as well as the books that they encounter includin[...]