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Taylor, F. (2003). Content analysis and gender stereotypes in children’s books. Teaching Sociology, 300–311. https://doi.org/10.2307/3211327. We then tested whether the book groups differed by the gender of the peripheral characters. Across the books, peripheral characters were significantly more likely to be male ( n = 239), with fewer female peripheral characters ( n = 44), F(1, 80) = 124.539, p< .001, η p 2 = 0.6. To test the prevalence of peripheral characters within books by gender of titular character, a mixed 2 (gender of main character: Little Miss versus Mr. Men) x 2 (gender of peripheral character: female versus male) ANOVA was conducted. This interaction revealed that there were significantly more male peripheral characters in Little Miss books ( M = 3.65, SD = 1.70) compared to Mr. Men books ( M = 2.45, SD = 1.59), F(1,79) = 9.86, p = .002, η p 2 = 0.11. There were no differences in the number of female peripheral characters in Little Miss books ( M = 0.59, SD = 0.92) compared with Mr. Men books ( M = 0.51, SD = 0.78), p = .68. Prevalence of Gender Stereotypes Little Miss Greedy was greedy, indeed. It was her cousin, Mr Greedy's, birthday and he invited her to tea. What did Little Miss Greedy get her cousin for his birthday?

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Therefore, this work has two broad aims: (1) to understand the gender stereotype messaging present in the full collection of Mr. Men and Little Miss books and (2) to investigate how parents make decisions about gendered stereotypes in book choices. These aims fill an important gap in the literature; in particular, while much work has investigated the gender stereotyping of children’s books, no published work to date has assessed this series specifically. We then assessed how parents make decisions about book choice, when faced with the prospect of selecting a Little Miss book to read to their daughter. This is the first research we are aware of that directly tests how parents might utilize gender content when choosing books for their child to read. Little Miss Helpful was one of those people who loved to help other people, but who ended up helping nobody. Apparala, M. L., Reifman, A., & Munsch, J. (2003). Cross-national comparison of attitudes toward fathers’ and mothers’ participation in household tasks and childcare. Sex Roles, 48(5), 189–203. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022865002992. Little Miss Chatterbox is the 16th book in the Little Miss series. Little Miss Chatterbox talks a lot, just like her brother, Mr. Chatterbox. Miss Chatterbox gets fired every time she works at a job. Miss Chatterbox then gets a job as a telephone worker who tells the time every second.Across three studies, we tested the presence of, and reaction to, gender stereotypes in a popular book series: Hargreaves’ Little Miss/Mr Men book series. Using a content analysis approach, guided by previous works and informed by recommendations for content analysis in gender scholarship (Neuendorf, 2010), we found that these books are generally consistent with the stereotype that women are passive and domestic, whereas men are active and adventurous (Study 1). Beyond the book contents, the adjectives assigned to each Little Miss/Mr Men title character were also readily categorised by gender even in the absence of any book or gendering information, further corroborating the gendered stereotypical nature of the books and indicating that people readily use and are aware of these stereotypes (Study 2). We also showed that parents generally prefer counter-stereotypical books to read to their daughters (Study 3), and this was not associated with feminist identity. Study 3 also demonstrated how, qualitatively, book choice is guided by consideration of gender stereotypes, and that at least in some cases parents prefer not to transmit gender stereotypical messages to their children. Ultimately, the three studies reported here contribute to the growing literature on gender portrayals in children’s books. Collins, L. J., Ingoldsby, B. B., & Dellmann, M. M. (1984). Sex-role stereotyping in children’s literature: A change from the past. Childhood Education, 60(4), 278. Study 1 used a content analysis approach to investigate the contents of the Mr. Men/Little Miss books. Content analyses have been used consistently to assess gender stereotyping in books (e.g., Diekman and Murnen, 2004) and is a useful method to establish patterns across qualitative or mixed-modality datasets. This approach is also broadly aligned with other relevant research that investigates the gendered content of children’s books (e.g., Crabb & Bielawksi, 1994; Tetenbaum and Pearson, 1989) and the presence of gender stereotypes in other forms of media (e.g., advertisements; Sandhu, 2019; graphic t-shirts; Lapierre et al., 2022). The aim of content analysis is to establish and interpret meaning from textual or visual content. Directed content analysis was chosen for this study, given its utility with large qualitative datasets (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005). Directed content analysis also allows researchers to be attentive to inductive codes, while staying grounded in the literature (Assarroudi et al., 2018) and is, therefore, suitably flexible. Coding Procedure Mr. Miserable · Mr. Right · Mr. Thrifty · Mrs. Thrifty · Little Miss Penny · Little Miss Prudence · Wilfred the Wizard · Mr. Careless · Little Miss Nobody · Mr. Mean's brother · Little Miss Bump · Mr. Beefeater's Family She, along with Little Miss Wise, Little Miss Brilliant, and Little Miss Inventor are the most intelligent Little Misses.

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Little Miss Pretty has been published under the alternative titles of Madame Coquette (French) and Η Κυρία Κοκέτα (Greek). Mr. Cheeky · Mr. Christmas · Mr. Birthday · Little Miss Jealous · Little Miss Christmas · Little Miss Birthday · Little Miss Stella · Mr. Moustache · Little Miss Explorer · Little Miss Valentine · Mr. Bolt · Little Miss Waste Less · Mr. Octopus But Mr. Clever is also very smug. He believes that no one can get the better of him, because of his superior intelligence. But of course, many do. Mr. Happy asks Mr. Clever to tell him the funniest joke, but Mr. Clever didn't know any jokes, Mr. Greedy asked for the recipe to the yummiest dish, but Mr. Clever didn't know any recipes, nor he could cook (as a machine of his cooks for him in Cleverland), Mr. Forgetful wanted to know his name, but Mr. Clever didn't know yet because they just met. We then explored the free-text comments, as with the previous pair. Here, decisions also appeared to be driven by awareness of stereotypes for some parents (e.g., “ not keen on teaching my daughters they must be helpers”; Little Miss Sunshine). Similarly, a parent who selected Little Miss Helpful shared similar views: “ It’s important to me to choose reading materials that reflect positive values and role models. In this case, being helpful seems more positive and active than being sunshine”. In this condition, parents also shared their overall views on the Little Miss/Mr Men book series more generally, rather than focusing on their preference between Little Miss Sunshine and Helpful too. For example, “ I despise Mr men and little miss books and would only read them under duress” and “ I’m not really a fan of the Little Miss books”. For example, one participant discussed this: “ I dislike the implication carried by both books, that girls should either be cheerful (sunshine) or helpful. I also think ‘little miss’ is patronising when compared to ‘mr men’.” Beyond this, parents in this condition based their choice on other factors, including familiarity (“ I know this story better”), and aesthetics (“ The brighter yellow is more eye-catching”, and “looks fun”.). Feminist Identity and Book ChoiceMr. Brawler · Mr. No · Little Miss Brilliant · Little Miss Busy-Body · Little Miss Carefree · Little Miss Careful · Little Miss Loud · Little Miss Pretty · Little Miss Prim · Little Miss Show-Off · Little Miss Yes Tsai, J. L., Louie, J. Y., Chen, E. E., & Uchida, Y. (2007). Learning what feelings to desire: Socialization of ideal affect through children’s storybooks. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(1), 17–30. https://doi.org/10.1177/014616720629274 Little Miss Late is late for everything, and can't find a job. She tries to work in a bank, but by the time she gets there, the bank has closed. She tries to be a secretary for Mr. Snooty, but he goes home late. The job she gets is as a servant for Mr. Lazy. Because Mr. Lazy does everything much later than most people due to being lazy, this lines up perfectly with Little Miss Late, as she does everything later as well. Little Miss Calamity · Little Miss Daredevil · Mr. Scatterbrain · Mr. Stubborn · Mr. Metal · Little Miss Strong · Ghost · Caveman · Mummy · Cave-Nosey · Cave-Small · Mr. Rude's family · Mr. Fussy's unnamed relative · Loretto the Venus Flytrap Rivals: Mr. Rude, Mr. Mean, Mr. Snooty, Mr. Small, Mr. Mischief, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss Scary, Little Miss Bad