Avancerad flöjtteknik. Hur kroppen befäster finmotoriska färdigheter
The aim with this essay is to look into what literature has been published in 2006 and 2007 for boys between the ages of twelve and sixteen in order to analyse six of the titles. Our two main questions are as follows:?How is the teenage boy depicted in six of these books? - To what extent is the teenage boy depicted in a gender stereotypical way?.We chose the titles for analysis based on our mapping of the published literature and took into account the authors? gender and age as well as the main themes of the books. As theoretical base for our analysis we used Marias Nikolajeva?s table of gender stereotypes in literature. The table lists traits that are characteristic of masculinity and femininity respectively.The market for boys? literature is rather limited and male authors by far exceed female ones in number.Our analysis shows that the main characters are not particularly stereotypical. However, most books contain other characters that definitely show mostly gender stereotypical features.