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Download full textMarchino, Lois A. – 1980
The Nancy Drew adventure series, a classic girls' favorite for over 50 years, offers less sex role stereotyping and sexist cultural indoctrination than the majority of reading textbooks now used in the elementary school classroom. Textbooks were excluded from the Title IX regulations of the 1972 Education Amendments, and a review of studies…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Elementary Schools, Females
