Gender(ed) Identities (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature
Redaktion: Clasen, Tricia; Hassel, Holly

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This diverse, cross-disciplinary volume examines gender construction in children's and YA literature, complementing and updating scholarship on this topic via a rich examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. Across genres, eras, and national literatures, the book explores how readers encounter unorthodox as well as traditional notions of gender. This volume provides an updated range of multidisciplinary and methodologically diverse analyses of critically and commercially successful children's and YA texts, contributing to the scholarship on children's and YA literature, gender and sexuality, women's studies, and other disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317430704
• Artikelnr.: 45698750

Autorenporträt

Tricia Clasen is Professor of Communication and Theater Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Rock County, USA. Holly Hassel is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and
Young Adult Literature
Chapter 1: Introduction
Section 1: Gender(ing) Communities
Chapter 2: History Repeating Itself: The Portrayal of Female Characters in
Young Adult Literature at the Beginning of the Millennium (Suico)
Chapter 3: Girls Online: Representations of Femininity in the Digital Age
(Flanagan)
Chapter 4: Academic Agency in YA Novels by Mexican American Women Authors
(Cummins)
Chapter 5: Queer Consciousness/Community in David Levithan's Two Boys
Kissing: "One the Other Never Leaving" (Matos)
Section 2: Developing Gender(ed) Identities
Chapter 6: "What Defines Me?" - Performativity, Gender and Ethnicity in
Korean American YA Fiction (Lee and Stephens)
Chapter 7: Gendered Stories, Advice, and Narrative Intimacy and Amish Young
Adult Literature (Brown)
Chapter 8: One Choice, Many Petals: Reading the Female Voice of Tris in the
Divergent series (Jennings)
Chapter 9: Who Is a Girl? The Tomboy, the Lesbian, and the Transgender
Child (Friddle)
Section 3: Gendered Trauma, Loss, and Healing
Chapter 10: Pedophobia and the Orphan Girl in Pollyanna and A Series of
Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (Tribunella)
Chapter 11: "Kindred Spirits": Vulnerability as the Key to Transformative
Female Relationships in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (Pilmaier)
Chapter 12: Speaking the Bitter Truth: The Role of the Creative Imagination
in the Process of Healing (Mallan)
Section 4: Complicating Sexuality and Romance
Chapter 13: Paradise Contested: Sexuality and Sacrifice in Philip Pullman's
His Dark Materials (Zanichkowsky)
Chapter 14: Growing Up Girl: A Rhetoric of Restrained Empowerment in
American Girl's Self-Help Books about Puberty (De La Cruz)
Chapter 15: Gender and the Perfected Female in the Contemporary
Resurrection Allegory of Breaking Dawn (Casper)
Chapter 16: Masculinity and Romantic Myth in Contemporary YA Romance
(Clasen)
Section 5: Gender/Genre, Texts, and Contexts
Chapter 17: When the Slipper Doesn't Fit: Construction of the 'Ugly' Female
in Cinderella Picture-Book Illustrations 1800-2015 (Wildermuth and
Robinson)
Chapter 18: Girls Write Back: Feminism and Disordered Writing (Bherer)
Chapter 19: Freedom in Fantasy?: Gender Restrictions in Children's
Literature (Long)
Chapter 20: Hungry for Change: Lessons from The Hunger Games as
Consciousness-Raising (Egan)