Diachronic analysis of gender roles and stereotypes in illustrations of children's and young adult literature

Abstract

This article consists of a diachronic analysis of Spanish children's literature of the last four decades. It seeks the objective of studying the impact of the advances in the field of equality achieved in recent years. To this end, based on a selection of children's readings published between 1980 and 2020, we analyze the illustrations they contain, paying attention to elements that may imply the representation of traditional stereotypes about the social roles and characterizations of men and women. The analysis shows the evolution that has been experienced in relation to overcoming certain stereotypes that are recurrent in works from the early years of the 1980s, especially in works published in the last decade studied.