Veterinarian: a Job for Men and Women in Children’s Literature of Yesterday and Today Cover Image

Vétérinaire : un métier exercé par les hommes ou par les femmes dans la littérature de jeunesse d’hier et d’aujourd’hui ?
Veterinarian: a Job for Men and Women in Children’s Literature of Yesterday and Today

Author(s): Christine Fontanini, Anne SCHNEIDER
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: children’s literature; vet; childhood; stereotype; gender; girls and boys readers;

Summary/Abstract: Our research intends to examine social representations of vetjob in 30 documentary books, fiction books and novels published in France between 1972 and 2017 for 0 to 7 year old young. Based on a research which is a quantitative-qualitative combination we want to show how are vet representations in books for children. For that, we are trying to answer to these following questions: are women and men nearly of the number? How are women and men represented: in which specialties or species and which professional attributes for women and men vet?

  • Issue Year: XXXIII/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 23-37
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: French