Little Miss Muffet Fights Back: Mommies at Work and the Radical Roots of Non-Sexist Children's Literature

Abstract

Abstract:Through the picturebook Mommies at Work, this essay explores the hidden history of non-sexist children's literature, which seemed to grow out of Women's Liberation in the 1970s. Originally written in 1955 but popularized in the 1970s, Mommies grew out of author Eve Merriam's "left feminism" and her involvement with Communism.