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From overeating to swapping parents: The gendering of emotion regulation in contemporary Dutch-language picturebooks
Borst,Rosalyn
Borst,Rosalyn
Abstract
This chapter investigates how contemporary Dutch-language picturebooks navigate gendered norms and scripts regarding emotion regulation. As cases in point, it focuses on contemporary Dutch-language picturebooks that portray a child-parent conflict that causes anger in many children: parents’ engagement with digital devices in their presence and the ensuing neglect. Drawing on Nikolajeva’s (2014, 2018b) theoretical work on the representation of emotions in picturebooks and the methodological framework for multimodal analysis of picturebooks provided by Painter et al. (2013), this chapter compares the modes of anger regulation portrayed in these picturebooks and investigates how they confirm or contest the gendered patterns for anger expression and diversion that social-psychological studies report on (Cox et al., 1999, 2004). Furthermore, this investigation charts the different subject positions they offer to readers. The overall aim of the analysis is to explore whether readers are invited to approve of characters adhering to gendered norms and scripts regarding anger regulation or that these books provide opportunities for readers to question them.
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2025-06-30
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Routledge
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Gender, Emotion regulation, Anger, Stereotypes, Picturebooks, Cognitive literary theory, Multimodal analysis, SDG 5 - Gender Equality
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Borst, R 2025, From overeating to swapping parents : The gendering of emotion regulation in contemporary Dutch-language picturebooks. in M Zaborskis (ed.), The routledge companion to gender and childhood. Routledge companions to gender, Routledge, London, pp. 334-347. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003431923-32