Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books

A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro is Full Professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Faculty of Education, at University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.Eija Ventola, now Emerita Professor, was previously Full Professor of International Business Communication at Aalto University, Business School, Finland.

• List of TablesList of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Picture books, gender and multimodality. An introduction. A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro and Eija VentolaPART I.Stories portraying boys who challenge gender stereotypes.Chapter 2. Julián is a Mermaid. Challenging Gender Stereotypes: A Qualitative Multimodal Content Analysis. Danielle Kachorsky and Alexandria PerezChapter 3. Ideational Construal of Male Challenging Gender Identities in Children’s Picture Books. Izaskun ElorzaChapter 4. At the Heart of it: Once There Was a Boy. Brooke Collins-GearingChapter 5. Gender Assumptions in Picture Books about Boys in Dresses. Perry NodelmanPART II.Picture books featuring princesses and girls who do not conform to female gender stereotypes.Chapter 6. Queering the Princess: On Feminine Subjectivities and Becoming Girl in Contemporary Picture books. Angela Thomas and A. Jesús Moya-GuijarroChapter 7. A Clever Paper Bag Princess, a Fearless Worst Princess and an Empowered Little Red. A Critical Multimodal Analysis. Verônica Constanty and Viviane M. HeberleChapter 8. A Semiotic and Multimodal Analysis of Interactive Relations in Picture Books that Challenge Female Gender Stereotypes. Carmen Santamaría GarcíaChapter 9. Communicative Functions of Part-Whole Representations of Characters in Picture Books which Challenge Gender Stereotypes. A. Jesús Moya-GuijarroPART III.Visual narratives portraying and challenging the concept of traditional family.Chapter 10. Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books: A Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis. Xinchao Zhai, Kay L. O’Halloran, Lyndon Way and Tan Sabine.Chapter 11. Linguistic and Visual Trends in the Representation of Two-Mum and Two-Dad Couples in Children’s Picture Books. Mark McGlashan.Chapter 12. The Depiction of Family and Self in Children’s Picture Books: A Corpus-Driven Exploration. Coral Calvo-Maturana and Charles Forceville.Chapter 13. The Moomin Family: An Elastic Permeable Multi-Dimensional Construct in Semiotic and Social Space. Christian Matthiessen.