A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro is Full Professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Faculty of Education, at University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

Eija Ventola, now Emerita Professor, was previously Full Professor of International Business Communication at Aalto University, Business School, Finland.

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Picture books, gender and multimodality. An introduction. A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro and Eija Ventola

PART I.

Stories portraying boys who challenge gender stereotypes.

Chapter 2. Julián is a Mermaid. Challenging Gender Stereotypes: A Qualitative Multimodal Content Analysis. Danielle Kachorsky and Alexandria Perez

Chapter 3. Ideational Construal of Male Challenging Gender Identities in Children's Picture Books. Izaskun Elorza

Chapter 4. At the Heart of it: Once There Was a Boy. Brooke Collins-Gearing

Chapter 5. Gender Assumptions in Picture Books about Boys in Dresses. Perry Nodelman

PART II.

Picture books featuring princesses and girls who do not conform to female gender stereotypes.

Chapter 6. Queering the Princess: On Feminine Subjectivities and Becoming Girl in Contemporary Picture books. Angela Thomas and A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro

Chapter 7. A Clever Paper Bag Princess, a Fearless Worst Princess and an Empowered Little Red. A Critical Multimodal Analysis. Verônica Constanty and Viviane M. Heberle

Chapter 8. A Semiotic and Multimodal Analysis of Interactive Relations in Picture Books that Challenge Female Gender Stereotypes. Carmen Santamaría García

Chapter 9. Communicative Functions of Part-Whole Representations of Characters in Picture Books which Challenge Gender Stereotypes. A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro

PART III.

Visual narratives portraying and challenging the concept of traditional family.

Chapter 10. Gender Stereotypes in Children's Picture Books: A Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis. Xinchao Zhai, Kay L. O'Halloran, Lyndon Way and Tan Sabine.

Chapter 11. Linguistic and Visual Trends in the Representation of Two-Mum and Two-Dad Couples in Children's Picture Books. Mark McGlashan.

Chapter 12. The Depiction of Family and Self in Children's Picture Books: A Corpus-Driven Exploration. Coral Calvo-Maturana and Charles Forceville.

Chapter 13. The Moomin Family: An Elastic Permeable Multi-Dimensional Construct in Semiotic and Social Space. Christian Matthiessen.