Changing a-genders in children's literature
This event has been cancelled and will be re-convened as a one-day event in the autumn. Please continue to check our forthcoming events for details.
Including guests Babette Cole and Meg Rosoff
The next children’s literature conference at the University of Hertfordshire
Prices
Per Person
£35 for each day
£60 for both days
£15 Student Discount for each day
£25 Conference Dinner (Optional)
The menu for the conference dinner can be found here
To book your place please complete and send the attached form along with your cheque payable to the University of Hertfordshire to the below address:
Suzanne Holding
University of Hertfordshire
de Havilland Campus R225
Hatfield
AL10 9EUInformation regarding accomodation and local hotels.
Attitudes to gender have changed radically in the past fifty years – in some cultures. In others, the degree of social and political freedom exercised by some girls and women in the Western world is highly problematical ; there are also new issues in the gender debate.
How has children’s literature presented the gender agenda at different historical points, and what are writers for children offering now, in this increasingly complex continuing field?
We hope that the conference will address issues such as;
- Comics
- children’s fiction
- publishing
- picture books
- children’s theatre
- annuals
- graphic novels
- school stories
The Hertfordshire conferences have focused on perspectives on children’s literature including Marxist, psychoanalytic and political. Our intention is to bring together a body of challenging and innovative cross-disciplinary research, of interest to all those who live and work with children but also to academics from other research fields. We would particularly welcome contributions from the LGBT perspectives.
For more information about the conference please contact Dr Jenny Plastow
Papers chosen for inclusion at the conference may also be published electronically.
Previous publications in the series...
Owners of the means of instruction?
Children's Literature: Some Marxist perspectives (2006)
The Story And The Self
Children's Literature: Some Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2007)
The Sands Of Time
Children's Literature: Culture, Politics & Identity (2008)