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Big picture - Where's Daddy?

Researching what parents do in contemporary children's picturebooks. An infographic by Matt Adams (University of Brighton) from 2012.

09 February 2012

Reading bedtime stories to my young children not so long ago, I started to notice something striking about gender depictions. It seemed that 'daddies' rarely appeared; compared to 'mummies' they were invisible. Paying closer attention, I noticed that when dads did appear, they tended to be in the background. A research question was brewing…

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