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CONTENTS Preface· ix 1. Defining the Feminist Children's Novel· 1 2. Subverting Stereotypes: Rejecting Traditional Gender Roles . lO 3. Subjectivity as a Gender Issue: Metaphors and Intertextuality . 26 4. Transforming Feminine Silence: Pro/claiming Female Voices . 47 5. Re/constructing the Female Writer: Subjectivity in the Feminist Kllnstlerroman . 63 6. Female Interdependency: Literal and Metaphoric Sisterhood . 80 7. Refuting Freud: Mother/Daughter Relationships . 100 8. Metafiction and the Politics of Identity: Narrativity, Subjectivity, and Community . 122 9. Afterword: Feminist Pedagogy and Children's Literature . 137 Notes· 143 Bibliography· 151 Index· 163 ...

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