![]() Where most readers would expect an editor's preface to highlight the arguments presented in individual essays and explain how essays are tied to the book's central theme, that is not the case in Beauty, Brains, and Brawn. So, readers are tossed from one focus to the next without warning thematic movement is blurred. The book is divided into five distinct parts: "Children at the Crossroads: Tough Boys, Fragile Girls?," "Images of Children in Illustrated Books," "Teaching the Past without Corsets and Chastity Belts," "Challenging Gender Stereotypes," and "The Politics of Gender: Teaching the Whole Child." These parts are numbered in the table of contents, but are not signaled correspondingly in any way within the text itself. The writing is informative, engaging, and easily understood. At least, Huck believes that each writer in this text would "attest" to this statement and that each reveals the "complexities of the task"(x).Īlthough this "eclecticism" is beneficial in that it carries multiple perspectives and meets the reading needs of a more general audience, the text's structure lacks physical and thematic continuity and makes for difficult reading of a text that would not otherwise be so troublesome. Charlotte Huck's introductory remarks pronounce the book's overriding theme to be a call for "adopting more egalitarian gender attitudes" in the construction of children's books (x). Some essays examine the relationship between the child identity presented in the text and the child reader's search for identity others address gender issues particular to a genre such as historical fiction, series books, and fairy tales and fantasy. Susan Lehr's rather eclectic collection of essays, Beauty, Brains, and Brawn, addresses the representations of gender in children's literature ranging from author profiles to scholarly textual analyses. You can check out a free trial version at Literature and Latte’s website, Lion and the Unicorn 26.3 (2002) 401-404 Scapple if available for both Windows and MacOS. You can also customize your notes by changing the font style, color, and choice of border styles. If you have a group of related ideas, Scapple also allows you to stack notes on one another. You can also turn turn those connections into arrows as you see fit. Simply drag one note onto another and you get a dotted line connection. And best of all, it works great with Scrivener by allowing you to drag your notes from Scapple into a Scrivener project.Ĭonnecting notes is very simple. You can also include images in your mind dump. Scapple is totally freeform in that you can jot down your ideas anywhere on the page as you see fit. It’s great for just dumping all those ideas you have rolling around in your head, and then making connections out of them. It’s a free form canvas that allows you to make the connections as you see fit. Scapple is more than mind mapping software. Scapple is by those fine folks over at Literature and Latte who are responsible for the great Scrivener writing software. Then, once out, you can make the connections and order them as you see fit, turning a jumbled mess into a story outline. Or, you could use Scapple to dump all of those ideas out onto a virtual canvas. You can try and put them in an outline and order them that way, or you can simply try and write out a coherent story with the ideas in your head, hoping not to leave anything out because you’ve forgotten it. ![]() So there you are, you’ve got a bunch of ideas rolling around in your head but you’re not sure how to make sense of them. ![]()
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