Children’s books as learning models. The transmission of gender roles

Abstract

From childhood behavior patterns associated with gender are internalized.The socialization process builds and rebuilds sexist models on which theidentity of the new generations is based. Stories, tales and fictional narrativesare important in the formation of gender identity and are part of thecollective imagination. Are broadcasters and producers speeches, whosemessages are internalized through repetition and imitation. Literary textsinfant behavior as lines marked sexual difference, indicating behaviors andprofiles for men and women according to cultural values. The discursiveframework affects the forms of identity and awareness of how the male andfemale identities are constructed.Objectives was to investigate literature as a source of cultural transmission.And identify gender marks present in some literary texts. Children’s literaturethrough their stories repeated stereotypes that have been built basedon the roles that have dominated in everyday society. Both traditional talesand modern tales stories marked by gender models, reflecting the establishedorder of male supremacy and society are related.