Abstract: In two studies, we investigated the prevalence of gender stereotypes in print magazines targeted at 2- to 9-year-olds, analyzing ...

“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I thin...

The great king and his queen were married for five years and were still waiting for a child. The mother often prayed for a girl whose skin a...

For more than a century, children described as "cripples" were part of children's literature. Othered and constructed as objec...

Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) was born a slave and only fifteen when her master, Dr Flint, began his pursuit of her. At 40, she was purchased a...

Analysing a data set of 3.5 million books (using an AI), fiction and non-fiction, published in English between 1900 and 2008, a research tea...

On 7 December 1938, the New York Times reported that the reason for the dissolution of Bette Davis' marriage with Harmon 'Oscar'...

I would probably not have embarked on such a difficult subject if I had not been compelled to do so by the whole logic of my research. I hav...

In the 19th century, there used to be medical objections to women reading novels. "Experts" were concerned that "reading dive...

I- Why you're going to France YOU are about to play a personal part in pushing the Germans out of France. Whatever part you take - rifl...

Mary Francis Ames (1853-1929), born Mary Frances Leslie Miller, authored and illustrated children's books in Great Britain and Canada as...