They show how these are often the very erasures that sustained the workings of colonisation in the first place, whose uneven power relations are thereby further sustained by the study of international politics. Through in-depth engagements with the norms constructivist scholarship, the contributors expose the theoretical, epistemological and practical erasures that have been implicitly effected by the uncritical adoption of 'norms' as the dominant lens for analysing the ideational dynamics of international politics. Drawing together insights from a broad range of scholars, it evaluates what it means to theorise international politics from a postcolonial perspective, understood not as a unified body of thought or a new '-ism' for IR, but as a 'situated perspective' offering ex-centred, post-Eurocentric sites for practices of situated critique. This volume uses the concept of 'norms' to initiate a long overdue conversation between the constructivist and postcolonial scholarships on how to appraise the ordering processes of international politics. The findings suggest that increased effort is needed on the part of publishers and authors to provide children with literature that more closely parallels the roles of males and females in contemporary society. Boys are occasionally shown as passive dependent today, but are no less instrumental than 50 years ago. Girls are now being pictured in more instrumental activities, but are as passive dependent as 50 years ago. It was found that while the frequency of males and females depicted in the stories had indeed become more evenly distributed over the past 50 years, the roles played by males and females have changed in a more subtle way.

One hundred and fifty children's picture books were analyzed for gender role content. In particular, we were interested in whether the frequency of males and females in pictures and their characterizations had changed. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the sex bias portrayed in picture books is still as prevalent as in the past. The impact of gender role stereotyping in children's literature has been examined in numerous studies over the past two decades.

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