Introduction / Charlotte Huck
Part one: children at the crossroads: Tough boys, fragile girls?
The hidden curriculum : are we teaching young girls to wait for the prince? / Susan Lehr
Author profile : Virginia Hamilton
Author profile : Katherine Paterson
The unquenchable source : finding a heroic girl inside a man / T.A. Barron
Author profile : Gary Paulsen
Deconstructing Harry : casting a critical eye on the witches and wizards of Hogwarts / Deborah L. Thompson
Popular series books and the middle-class children inhabiting them : are girls and boys really that frivolous? / Jennifer Armstrong
Part two: Images of children in illustrated books
Picture books for preschool children : exploring gender issues with three-and four-year-olds / Barbara Chatton
Illustrator profile : Jerry Pinkney
Author profile : Andrea Pinkney
Are authors rewriting folklore in today's image? / Margaret Chang
Illustrator profile : Paul O. Zelinsky
Part three: Teaching the past without corsets and chastity belts
Truth as patchwork : developing female characters in historical fiction / Janet Hickman
Author profile : Karen Cushman
Author profile in two voices : Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Separating the men from the boys : coming of age in recent historical fiction for children / Daniel P. Woolsey
Representations of Native American women and girls in children's historical fiction / Debbie A. Reese
Part four: Challenging gender stereotypes
Why gender stereotypes still persist in contemporary children's literature / Belinda Y. Louie
Author profile : Alice Mead
Author profile : Pat Mora
Parent characters in children's novels : lessons learned / Sylvia M. Vardell
Parallels, polarities, and intersections : gender and religion in children's books / Ann Trousdale
Part five: The politics of gender: Teaching the whole child
Why do educators need a political agenda on gender? / Kathy G. Short
The anomalous female and the ubiquitous male / Susan Lehr.
