Published June 30, 2023 | Version v1
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Implicit Gender Inequality in Children's Picture Books: Evidence from a Text Mining Analysis of 200 Bestselling Chinese and British Titles

  • 1. School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • 2. College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • 3. School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University
  • 1. University of Graz
  • 2. Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities
  • 3. Le Mans Université
  • 4. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum

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This paper compares the gender narratives in children's picture books in the UK and China, with the full text of a pipeline of 200 bestselling picture books from 2010 to 2020. We applied Term Frequency and Sentiment Analysis, to examine the invisible gender stereotypes in 200 picture book texts.

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Book: 10.5281/zenodo.7961822 (DOI)