Vol. 20 No. 2 (2021)

The 20th issue is devoted to gendered representations of children and adults in children's literature. The study of children's literature with an analytical toolkit of gender studies allows us to pose questions related to the peculiarities of the historical dynamics of power imbalance as translated into the texts for children. The following questions are among them: is children's literature ahead or lagging behind the agenda in depicting shifts in gender roles? To what extent do the literary images of children depend on the epistemological stance towards gender problematics? Does it prove to be productive to consider the genre and narrative characteristics as impactful in the construction of gender roles?