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This study provides a qualitative exploration of juvenile biographies of women, a genre defined here as a book dealing with the whole or partial life of an individual and reviewed as nonfiction for readers in elementary, middle, or junior high school. Beginning with a survey of juvenile material on Elizabeth Tudor published in England and the United States between 1852 and 2002, author Gale Eaton scrutinizes thirty-four books—juvenile biographies, histories, and collected biographies—for trends in both content and rhetoric.
Well-Dressed Role Models: The Portrayal of Women in Biographies for Children then goes on to look at close readings of books published in the United States in the years 1946, 1971, and 1996 and presents a penetrating analysis of a genre that serves the needs of youth. The findings of this study include the fact that juvenile biographies make role models out of women who, in many cases, never would have become famous by following all the rules for good girls. By choice of subject and emphasis, their authors dress the life stories of real women in the appropriate values of new generations. Three appendixes providing annotated book lists for each of the three years analyzed conclude this study.
Contents
Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Introduction: Biographies for Girls, 1946-1996
Chapter 3 1. Rediscovering Elizabeth
Chapter 4 2. 1946: Private Women and the Public Good
Chapter 5 3. 1971: Public Work and Private Loss
Chapter 6 4. 1996: Objectivity and the Culture Wars
Chapter 7 5. Pocahontas: Four Political Fictions
Chapter 8 6. Conclusion: Dressing the Role Models
Part 9 Appendix A: Biographies of 1946: An Annotated List
Part 10 Appendix B: Biographies of 1971: An Annotated List
Part 11 Appendix C: Biographies of 1996: An Annotated List
Part 12 Index
Part 13 About the Author
