Victoria Flanagan

Into the Closet

Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children's fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780415809047
• ISBN-10: 0415809045
• Artikelnr.: 57041824

Autorenporträt

Victoria Flanagan completed her doctoral dissertation about cross-dressing in children's literature in 2005 at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She has published several critical articles and in 2002 contributed a chapter to Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature and Film, edited by John Stephens (Routledge, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
Children's Literature and the Cultural Discourse of Cross-dressing
Chapter 2
Cross-dressing in Children's Literature and Film: Three Models of Gender
Disguise
Chapter 3
Iconic Female Cross-dressing: The Problem of Gender in Children's
Retellings of the Story of Joan of Arc
Chapter 4
Re-framing Masculinity: The De-stabilizing Effect of the Female
Cross-dresser
Chapter 5
Funny Boys: Masculinity, Misogyny and the Carnivalesque in Children's Male
Cross-dressing Literature
Chapter 6
(Mis)Performing Gender Through a Lens: Cross-dressing in Children's Cinema
Chapter 7
Emerging Identities: Cross-dressing and Sexuality in Adolescent Fiction
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index