García-González, Macarena2025-05-222025-05-222020García-González M. Chasing remarkable lives: a problematization of empowerment stories for girls. Journal of Literary Education. 2020;(3):44-61. DOI: 10.7203/JLE.3.181652659-3149http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70452This article explores the question of how to assess children’s literature as feminist. Drawing upon a revision of the concept of postfeminism as a gendered neoliberalism that cultivates the ‘right’ disposition for succeeding in a neoliberal society, I bring together two possible objects of study upon which I outline some problematic aspects. I begin by focusing on a publishing phenomenon of the last few years: the biography compilations, such as the crowdfunded Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, that, in a more or less explicit manner, aim to provide younger generations with new repertoires of gendered agencies. Then I analyze two picturebooks that have been recommended by reading promotion agencies and praised for their anti-sexist values: Tirititesa and La bella Griselda. In both these picturebooks, we find two protagonists tran sgressing gender norms and heteronormative ideals of romantic love. Yet, I argue that they reproduce systems of exclusions that are quite problematic if read from feminist intersectionality. The texts analyzed are modeled by a postfeminist sensibility in which a celebratory “girl power” is put forward, while obscuring how (gendered) exclusions work.application/pdfengThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.7203/JLE.3.18165PostfeminismBiographiesInequalitiesIntersectionalityPicturebooksinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess