Language powerfully impacts the construction of our gender identities. In the mid-twentieth century gender stereotypes were strong, but at the same time feminism was giving rise to new ideas and becoming increasingly mainstream. What gender-related discourse prosodies did children encounter in popular literature? Did these merely reinforce the conventional stereotypes or did they contain the seeds of change? This study of British children's fiction published in the 1940s-60s seeks to answer these questions through an analysis of personality descriptors collocated with female and male characters in eight books by four prolific children's writers. Although gender stereotypes (as represented by the Bem Sex-Role Inventory) are to some extent reinforced in these books, there are also considerable discrepancies. Children were meeting a range of positive models which did not always match ‘feminine' or ‘masculine' stereotypes.

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激进但忠诚：英国儿童冒险书中的修饰和性别角色

语言有力地影响着我们性别认同的建构。在 20 世纪中叶，性别刻板印象很强烈，但与此同时，女权主义正在产生新的思想并日益成为主流。孩子们在通俗文学中遇到了哪些与性别相关的话语韵律？这些只是强化了传统的刻板印象还是包含了变革的种子？这项对 1940 年代至 60 年代出版的英国儿童小说的研究旨在通过分析四位多产儿童作家在八本书中与女性和男性角色搭配的个性描述来回答这些问题。尽管性别刻板印象（以 Bem 性别角色量表为代表）在这些书中得到了一定程度的强化，但也存在相当大的差异。