| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Children's literature and culture |
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Children's literature and culture.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / Holly Hassel and Tricia Clasen -- I. Gender(ing) communities -- 2. History repeating itself : the portrayal of female characters in young adult literature at the beginning of the Millennium / Terri Suico -- 3. Girls online : representations of adolescent female sexuality in the Digital Age / Victoria Flanagan -- 4. Academic agency in YA novels by Mexican American women authors / Amy Cummins -- 5. Queer consciousness/community in David Levithan's Two Boys Kissing : ""One the other never leaving" / Angel Daniel Matos -- II. Developing gender(ed) identities -- 6. "What defines me?" : performativity, gender and ethnicity in Korean American YA fiction / Sung-Ae Lee and John Stephens -- 7. Gendered stories, advice, and narrative intimacy in Amish young adult literature / Joshua R. Brown -- 8. One choice, many petals : reading the female voice of Tris in the Divergent series / Nancy Jennings -- 9. Who is a "girl"/ : the tomboy, the lesbian, and the transgender child / Megan E. Friddle -- III. Gendered trauma, loss, and healing -- 10. Pedophobia and the orphan girl in Pollyanna and A Series of Unfortunate Events : the bad beginning / Eric L. Tribunella -- 11. "Kindred spirits : vulnerability as the key to transformative female relationships in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables / Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier -- 12. Speaking the bitter truth : the role of the creative imagination in the process of healing / Kerry Mallan -- IV. Complicating sexuality and romance -- 13. Paradise contested : sexuality and sacrifice in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials / Elizabeth Zanichkowsky -- 14. Growing up girl : a rhetoric of restrained empowerment in American Girl's self-help gooks about puberty / Lauren de la Cruz -- 15. Eternal life, eternal love : gender and the perfected female in the contemporary resurrection allegory of Breaking Dawn / Mary Frances Casper -- 16. Masculinity and romantic myth in contemporary YA romance / Tricia Clasen -- V. Gender/genre, texts, and contexts -- 17. When the slipper doesn't fit : construction of the "ugly" female in Cinderella picture-book illustrations 1800-2015 / Susan M. Wildermuth and Linda A. Robinson -- 18. Girls write back : feminism and disordered writing / Valerie Bherer -- 19. Freedom in fantasy? : gender restrictions in children's literature / Rebecca Long |
| Summary |
"This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult literature. It complements and updates the scholarship in the field by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. By providing an expansive treatment of gender and sexuality across genres, eras, and national literature, the collection explores how readers encounter unorthodox as well as traditional notions of gender. It begins with essays exploring how children's and YA literature construct communities formed by gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and in face-to-face and virtual spaces. Section II's central focus is how gendered identities are formed, unpacking how texts for young readers ranging from Amish youth periodicals to the blockbuster Divergent series trace, reproduce, and shape gendered identity socialization. In section III, the essential literary function of translating trauma into narrative is addressed in classics like Anne of Green Gables and Pollyanna, as well as more recent works. Section IV's focus on sexuality and romance encompasses fiction and nonfiction works, examining how children's and young adult literature can serve as a regressive, progressive, and transgressive site for construction meaning about sex and romance. Last, Section IV offers new readings of paratextual features in literature for children -- from the classic tale of Cinderella to contemporary illustrated novels. The key achievement of this volume is providing an updated range of multidisciplinary and methodologically diverse analyses of critically and commercially successful texts, contributing to the scholarship on children's and YA literature; gender, sexuality, and women's studies; and a range of other disciplines."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
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ebrary purchase 20170614 nsh UPB |
| Subject |
Children's literature, American -- History and criticism.
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Young adult literature, American -- History and criticism.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex differences in literature.
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Girls in literature.
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Boys in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clasen, Tricia, editor
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Hassel, Holly, editor
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| ISBN |
9781317430704 (electronic bk.) |
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1317430700 (electronic bk.) |
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9781315691633 (electronic bk.) |
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1315691639 (electronic bk.) |
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9781317430711 |
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1317430719 |
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9781317430698 |
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1317430697 |
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