Gender(ed) identities : critical rereadings of gender in children's and young adult literature / edited by Tricia Clasen and Holly Hassel.

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Children's literature and culture.
Other Authors:	Clasen, Tricia (Editor) Hassel, Holly (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Series:	Children's literature and culture.
Subjects:	Children's literature, American > History and criticism. Young adult literature, American > History and criticism. Gender identity in literature. Sex role in literature. Sex differences in literature. Girls in literature. Boys in literature. Children's literature, American. Young adult literature, American. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:	vii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Variant Title:	Gendered identities
Format:	Book

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.