Nancy Drew and Company : Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series / edited by Sherrie A. Inness. - Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1997. - ix, 193 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The whole of the moon : L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series / K.L. Poe -- Gender, class, and domesticity in the Isabel Carleton series / Kathleen Chamberlain -- Community and character : a comparison of Josephine Lawrence's Linda Lane series and classic orphan fiction / Deidre A. Johnson -- Mobile and modern heroines : early twentieth-century girls' automobile series / Nancy Tillman Romalov -- Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and Woodcraft Girls : the ideology of girls' scouting novels, 1910-1935 / Sherrie A. Inness -- A companion to history : Maud Hart Lovelaces's Betsy-Tacy books / Maureen E. Reed -- "You are needed, desperately needed!" : Cherry Ames in World War II ; The secret of the feminist heroine : the search for values in Nancy Drew and Judy Bolton / Sally E. Parry -- Nancy Drew as new girl wonder : solving it all for the 1930s / Deborah L. Siegel.



0879727357 (clothbound) 9780879727352 (clothbound) 0879727365 (pbk.) 9780879727369 (pbk.)

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Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
Children's literature in series--Bibliography.
Popular culture--History.--United States
Girls--Books and reading--United States.
Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character)
Sex role in literature.
Girls in literature.
Meisjesboeken.
Seri�ele publicaties.
Beeldvorming.

PS374.G55 / N36 1997