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Volume 81, Issue 7
1 July 1980
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Review Article| July 01 1980

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6909
Print ISSN: 0307-4803
© MCB UP Limited
1980
New Library World (1980) 81 (7): 146.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038496

I HAVE known for some time that various individuals and groups are not happy about children's books that show clean little girls playing with dolls and grubby boys sawing wood. Such books are condemned as ‘sexist’, a very IN word—and not to be sloppily pronounced so as to be confused with ‘sexy’, which is not only OUT but inflammatory.

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