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A twelve-year-old girl, youngest of four children, adopts an orphaned, unlikely foal named Rosinante just before she leaves for boarding school, and, with the vision of her own horse to inspire her, begins to gain assurance and maturity.
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Shifting Versions of Masculinity in Australian Children's Literature, 1953-1997Beverley Pennell,
2001single work criticism — Appears in:
Bookbird,vol.
39no.
22001;(p. 6-11)Pennell encountered significant change with regard to the concept of 'masculinity' in Australian realist children's fiction. She decided a major outcome of her research would be a literary sociocultural map of the shifting paradigms of gendered social relations in Australian society.
Shifting Versions of Masculinity in Australian Children's Literature, 1953-1997Beverley Pennell,
2001single work criticism — Appears in:
Bookbird,vol.
39no.
22001;(p. 6-11)Pennell encountered significant change with regard to the concept of 'masculinity' in Australian realist children's fiction. She decided a major outcome of her research would be a literary sociocultural map of the shifting paradigms of gendered social relations in Australian society.
