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What is Sexist

Chapter 19
Handbook of Research on Children's Consumption of Digital Media
Suggesting that the members of one sex are less able, intelligent, etc. than the members of the other sex, or referring to that sex's bodies, behavior, or feelings in a negative way.
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World Designs Presented to Children in Tales
Aslı Ekici (University of Selçuk, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5733-3.ch019
Abstract
Tale as a popular and narrative form differentiates according to time and space, the subject it deals with, the way it works, and the way the hero is built, and it designs different worlds for children. Various gender definitions—femininity and masculinity roles—through these designed worlds are presented to children underhandedly. This study evaluates how gender definitions—redefined with social, cultural, and economic changes in today's Turkey—are handled in recent Turkish tales by text analysis, specific to Keloğlan Tales on TRT cartoon channel.
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