Drawing on children’s literature criticism, this paper will be looking at the issue of gender in relation to children’s literature. Is gender inherent in the text or rather an imposed construct? How does a text get “gendered” and to what ends? In other words, what are the underlying cultural assumptions when a children’s literature text is launched as boys’, girls’, or LGBTQ children’s literature? What is the very process that naturalizes and stabilizes gender and in consequence legitimizes a text as being addressed to a specific gendered readership? By exploring the notions of representation, classification, mission and the alleged relatedness of the author’s gender to the textual construction of gender and to gendered readers, my contribution will look into the above questions so as to shed light on the construction, naturalization, and imposition of gender on literary works for children.

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西方范式中的儿童文学的性别化

本文利用对儿童文学的批评，着眼于与儿童文学有关的性别问题。性别是文本中固有的，还是强加的构造？文本如何“性别化”，到最后？换句话说，当将儿童文学文本发布为男孩，女孩或LGBTQ儿童文学时，潜在的文化假设是什么？是什么才能使性别自然化和稳定化，从而使针对特定性别读者的文本合法化呢？通过探索表示，分类，使命以及所谓性别与文本的性别结构以及性别读者之间的相关性的概念，我的贡献将研究上述问题，以阐明结构，归化，