My analysis of ambivalent representations of gender and sexuality in children’s book illustrations centers on publications for middle-class German readers between 1776 and 1845 – a somewhat overlooked yet foundational milieu of modern children’s literature. I have found that these images at times invoke hegemonic ideas about gender while at others deviate from those norms – occasionally even within the same text.

Quelle: https://visual-history.de/2025/10/13/bruce-ambiguous-representations-of-gender-in-late-eighteenth-and-early-nineteenth-century-illustrations-in-german-childrens-literature/