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- Title: Females and Harry Potter
- Author : Ruthann Mayes-Elma
- Release Date : January 29, 2006
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1448 KB
Description
This book explores the sexism inherent in the Harry Potter series, books in which a hero and his male friends are the focus and center of activity and the female characters are passive enablers—at best. Using critical discourse analysis and focusing on five themes (rule following/breaking, intelligence, validating/enabling, mothering, and resistance), the author explores the construction of traditional gender roles throughout the books. She concludes with a discussion of the implications for development of school curricula that enable students to critically deconstruct these texts.