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Article: Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.(Review)
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- March 22, 2000
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Ann Romines. 1997. Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. $55.00 hc. $17.95 so. xi + 287 pp.
It takes a certain kind of courage for an adult literary scholar to analyze the books she loved as a child. It can be sobering to revisit a childhood favorite, only to realize it is badly written, or sexist, or racist, or sentimental, or just plain dull. It can be equally sobering to discover that the text one remembers is actually the movie version, or the cartoon version, or the television version, with incidents and characters added or deleted willy-nilly. Some books are best left dosed. ...