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I'm glad I'm a boy!: I'm glad I'm a girl is a children's book that emphasizes on gender roles. It shows the guys are the fixers and girls need things fixed and boys are supposed to be presidents and the girl is supposed to be the First Lady. This book has few words on each page and the illustrations are very sketchy formatted. This would be a good book to read in the classroom when teaching about gender roles.

This book was one of the books I used for my research paper. It is an early reader book that talks about specific roles for girls and boys. Throughout the book it talks about what girls specifically do, like play with dolls, clean the house, etc. Boys invent things, they are doctors, etc. I gave this story a one out of five stars because girls and boys should be able to do whatever they want. Even though this book was made a long time ago, I wouldn't want children reading this. The illustrations are very plain throughout the book. They look like they were done with mostly black and red crayons or colored pencils. I wouldn't ever use this in a classroom, because I want students to be encouraged to be who they want to be.

The book I'M GLAD I'M A BOY! I'M GLAD I'M A GIRL! by Whitney Darrow is book made for younger children because there are few words on each page. The message of this book is telling children to be all of the stereotypes that we try to break as adults. Throughout the book the boy is doing all "boyish" things like sports and the girl is doing all "girlish" things like cooking and at the end it comes together where they both want to be together because one is a boy and one is a girl. This book shows all of the stereotypes of boys and girls and I would not want to use this in my class. I would not want to use this in my class because I do not want to promote stereotypes in my future class.

I'M GLAD I'M A BOY, I'M GLAD I'M A GIRL by Whitney Darrow is a straight up story explaining the gender stereotypes men and women were supposed to follow in the olden days. It starts out saying that boys are doctors while girls are nurses. It also goes on to explain that boys are the ones that build houses while the girls are the ones that clean the houses the boys build. This book was published in the 1970's which explains why the gender stereotypes are the way they are. Today many of these stereotypes are not the norm for many people. The illustrations in this book consist of the hand painted pictures with colors of black, white. and red. The pictures are simple illustrations that show how a person was supposed to do the task. A teacher could use this book in a class to show how times have changed. They could have their students raise their hands when they thought something in the book was wrong. This would create a discussion about gender stereotypes and how they have changed over the years.

I'm glad I'm a boy!: I'm glad I'm a girl! is a trade book about fixed gender roles and the stereotypes of what girls and boys are supposed to do. The illustrations in I'm glad I'm a boy!: I'm glad I'm a girl! is drawn with charcoal and filled with colors. Teachers should definitely use this book to teach about gender stereotypes. My interpretation of I'm glad I'm a boy!: I'm glad I'm a girl! is that it's such a bad book, but at the same time it a good book to teach about roles of gender too.

Whitney Darrow's I'M GLAD I'M A BOY; I'M GLAD I'M A GIRL! is a short little picture book about fixed gender roles and the stereotypical ways boys and girls are expected to act or what they are expected to be. For example, boys eat and girls do the cooking; boys invent things and girls use what they invent; boys fix the things girls need fixed; the list goes on and on. This book is very old, as is evident through what the text says and the illustrations - which are simple, black and white pencil sketches with splashes of red color - and it's ideals no longer align with society. I would not recommend the use of this book in a classroom, except perhaps to teach students about the issues with gender stereotyping.

This book is about gender roles of boy and girls. Boys are suppose to be Presidents, girls are suppose to be the First Lady. Boys are fixers, girls need things fixed. Boys eat while girls cook, etc. This book only talks about what boys and girls are "suppose" to do. Is tires to define the gender roles and does a successful job.

I’m Glad I’m a Boy; I’m Glad I’m a Girl is a story about gender roles, and according to society, how each gender should act. This book is repetitive in a way that it has boys on the left side, and girls on the right side. Each picture of the characters is something they are “supposed” to do. For instance, boy can be police officers, they can eat food, they are tough, they fight things, and more. Whereas the girls are “metermaids”, they cook the food that men eat, and they are dainty. Some of these comparisons were a little hysterical, but frustrating to see. The illustrations show the girl in a very short skirt, and the boy is wearing shorts and a t-shirt most of the time. Kids can be whoever they want to be, and can be interested in all sorts of activities. This book does a horrible job or presenting that to children. In the end the characters realize they need each other to survive, which obviously always true.½

These cartoons are for the most part dated. For instance, jokes about what clearly would be sexual harassment/assault by bosses elicit winces nowadays, rather than guffaws. However, some are timeless. For instance, the man lying in a hospital bed saying "Stop saying I'll live to be ninety, I AM ninety" is maybe funnier now than 50 years ago, given the number of 90-year olds currently alive. And the young woman coming home from a date saying "What do you know! A sexagenarian turns out to be a guy in his sixties." is still pretty funny. These cartoons are worthwhile both for the window into 1960s mores and for their humor. (Of course the fact that I grew up then may have something to do with my appreciation of the book.)

These cartoons by Whitney Darrow were published in the New Yorker magazine in the 1950s and 1960s. They are well drawn but now only mildly amusing. They clearly reflect their time frame and the perspective of upper middle class white culture. At this point, they are mainly cultural artifacts, portraying corporate executives, stay-at-home housewives, mischievious kids, teenagers, policemen, beatniks, Boy Scouts, martinis, college graduations, weddings, baseball games, burlesque clubs, and ban-the-bomb rallys. (This one won't stay in the permanent home library.)