Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival Seventh Edition: Women and Literature
It is with great excitement that I present to you the seventh edition of the Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival. The carnival was created by the brilliant Ashley who writes Small Strokes Fell Big Oaks. Please read and share the wonderful posts that focus on this month's theme of Women and Literature.
Editing my daughter's life chances (er, or her Fairy Tales at least)
Lulastic writes about the connections she sees between the fairytales her daughter is ingesting as a child and her future as a woman. What can a parent do in relation to literature to help reframe female role models?
Heather of The Divine Dissatisfaction, writes a stunning post that takes readers into a moment of discovery for the blogger. As we are acquainted with an unusual fairytale character, we are also introduced to the memory of a grade 12 student who was discovering the genre of feminist literature.
Tori of AnytimeYoga looks at how her students were quick to acknowledge and articulate the images of domestic abuse and violence against women in two well-known pieces of literature (trigger warning: violence/domestic violence).
5 Books Every Teenager Should Read
Ashley Lauren of Small Strokes Fell Big Oaks shares her expert knowledge in this post about books that we should be sharing with our teenagers and why.
Laura of WaldenMommy, Part Two, writes a candid piece that explores one reader and the connection she makes with Charlotte Gilman Perkins important short story, The Yellow Wallpaper. Long understood as a pivitol piece in feminist literature, this blogger makes personal the political (or literary).
Mansplained Right Out of The Canon
Lyndsay of ourfeminist{play}school looks specifically at Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath and wonders about the male lenses through which women in literature are viewed. Characters, authors, and readers are too often 'edited' by a male influence.
Creating a More Gender Neutral World Through Books
Shannon of Pineapples & Artichokes articulates a serious concern about gender stereotypes being perpetuated through children's literature and offers up her approach for dealing with this.
Trixie Belden: Preteen Detective and Feminist Role Model
Jenn from Monkey Butt Junction digs into the Detective Fiction genre to share a lesser known, but important, heroine. She compares this female-positive character with the more frequently ingested characters of 'preteen' fiction.
Fahrenheit 451 and the Female Dichotomy
Ashley Lauren of Small Strokes Fell Big Oaks uses Fahrenheit 451 as a lens through which to see the still-present dichotomy of good woman vs bad woman. Thought provoking and engaging.
Strong Female Characters – Not Just for Girls
Mandy at Living Peacefully with Children points out the often ignored need to expose males to strong female characters. Mandy wonders about why we aren't doing thismore often, and offers some ideas about why it is so important.
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