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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Stephanides, Adam Louis. "Tomorrow’s Women and Yesterday’s Men: Junior Novels and Change, 1946-64," Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 1998.
This dissertation examines novels written for adolescents published in the United States between 1946 and 1964. From bibliographies compiled by librarians and educators, I drew a random sample of thirty-six such novels, and read them carefully for the messages they sought to convey. Contrary to much of the historiography on the 1950s, they were not dominated by a uniformly conservative ideology. This was particularly true of novels for girls, which approved of women’s employment outside the home and encouraged their readers to seek careers. They also stressed the necessity of self-fulfillment, a theme absent from the boys’ books.
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