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TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender inequality and female body language in children’s literature
AU - Cermakova, Anna
AU - Mahlberg, Michaela
PY - 2021/10/2
Y1 - 2021/10/2
N2 - In this paper, we aim to situate corpus linguistic approaches to literary texts within the wider context of digital humanities. With an exploratory case study of gendered body language in children’s literature, we illustrate the relationship between quantitative and qualitative analysis. The case study is focused on female body language descriptions and how the presentation of body language has changed over time. We work with two corpora of children’s literature: 19th century and contemporary fiction. Our analysis confirms the substantial imbalance in the representation of female and male characters that has been identified by earlier studies and also shows a more nuanced picture of emerging subtle changes.
AB - In this paper, we aim to situate corpus linguistic approaches to literary texts within the wider context of digital humanities. With an exploratory case study of gendered body language in children’s literature, we illustrate the relationship between quantitative and qualitative analysis. The case study is focused on female body language descriptions and how the presentation of body language has changed over time. We work with two corpora of children’s literature: 19th century and contemporary fiction. Our analysis confirms the substantial imbalance in the representation of female and male characters that has been identified by earlier studies and also shows a more nuanced picture of emerging subtle changes.
U2 - 10.1093/llc/fqaa051
DO - 10.1093/llc/fqaa051
M3 - Journal article
VL - 36
SP - ii72-ii77
JO - Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
JF - Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
SN - 2055-7671
ER -