SOCI 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: School District 36 Surrey, Heteronormativity, Political Question
23 Feb 2016
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Beyond normalization: an analysis of heteronormativity in children"s picture books by anika stafford (pg. Since the late 1980s, there has been a growing body of books that depict families with same-sex parents (or other relatives in same-sex relationships) Emphasis has been on same-sex relationships as normal and healthy . These books have been highly contested and often banned. Example: in surrey, b. c. , the surrey school board banned three such books. Intensely polarized reviews of these books has some reviewers warning potential readers that the books in question dealt with unnatural relationships, while others praised the books for honouring diversity. Unaddressed in both these perspectives are the ways that power, privilege, and heteronormativity are reproduced or challenged in these books. Also pays little attention to the ways that literary quality is often sacrificed in order to make a political point from one another. Often discussions of children"s literary criticism and discussions of anti-oppressive politics take place in isolation.
