Well-Dressed Role Models: The Portrayal of Women in Biographies for Children

by Gale Eaton

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810851946
• ISBN13: 9780810851948
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"