Clasen / Hassel Gendered Identities

Critical Readings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-43070-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult literature. It complements and updates scholarship on this topic 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 literatures, the collection explores how readers encounter unorthodox as well as traditional notions of gender. Organized into four sections, it begins with historicist analyses of gender construction in classics of children's literature from Cinderella to Paradise Lost, read against new classics such as the American Girls books and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. A second section looks more carefully at the evolution and increasing popularity of female protagonists from Anne Shirley to Katniss Everdeen. The next section tackles questions of the intersections between gender and genre, whether paratextual features of diary-style fiction or the conventions of speculative fiction aimed at young readers. Lastly, section four applies a range of critical lenses to examine texts aimed at targeted readerships including Mexican-American, trans*, and Amish texts. The key achievement of this volume is in providing an updated range of multidisciplinary and methodologically diverse analyses of critically and commercially successful children's and young adult texts, contributing to the scholarship on children's and YA literature, gender and sexuality, women's studies, and other disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clasen, Tricia

Hassel, Holly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Tricia Clasen and Holly Hassel Part I: Reading across Eras 2. When the Slipper Doesn't Fit: Construction of the 'Ugly' Female in Cinderella Picture-Book Illustrations 1800-2015 Susan Wildermuth and Linda Robinson 3. Growing Up Girl: A Rhetoric of Restrained Empowerment in American Girl's Self-Help Books about Puberty Lauren De La Cruz 4. Paradise Contested: Sexuality and Sacrifice in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Elizabeth Zanichkowsky 5. Developing Bodies, Developing Images: The Necessary Androgyny of Hermione Granger and Lucy Pevensie Alexandra Deluise 6. Alice, Dorothy, and September: Patriarchal Conventions in "Lost Girl" Fantasy Fiction Holly Hassel 7. Pedophobia and the Orphan Girl in Pollyanna and A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning Eric Tribunella Part II: Female(s) Lead 8. "Kindred Spirits": Vulnerability as the Key to Transformative Female Relationships in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier 9. One Choice, Many Petals: Reading the Female Voice of Tris in the Divergent Series Nancy Jennings 10. Hungry for Change: Lessons from The Hunger Games as Consciousness-Raising Chrys Egan 11. Gender and the Perfected Female in the Contemporary Resurrection Allegory of Breaking Dawn Mary Frances Casper 12. History Repeating Itself: The Portrayal of Female Characters in Young Adult Literature at the Beginning of the Millennium Terry Suico Part III: Gender, Voice, and Genre 13. Girls Write Back: Feminism and Disordered Writing Valerie Bherer 14. Masculinity and Romantic Myth in Contemporary YA Romance Tricia Clasen 15. Freedom in Fantasy? Gender Restrictions in Children’s Literature Rebecca Long 16. Girls Online: Representations of Femininity in the Digital Age Victoria Flanagan 17. Speaking the Bitter Truth: The Role of the Creative Imagination in the Process of Healing Kerry Mallan Part IV: Exploring Diversity, Power, and Difference 18. Gendered Stories, Advice, and Narrative Intimacy and Amish Young Adult Literature Joshua Brown 19. Academic Agency in YA Novels by Mexican American Women Authors Amy Cummins 20. "What Defines Me?" – Performativity, Gender and Ethnicity in Korean American YA Fiction Sung-Ae Lee and John Stephens 21. Queer Consciousness in David Levithan's Two Boys Kissing: "One the Other Never Leaving" Angel Matos 22. Who Is a Girl? The Tomboy, the Lesbian, and the Transgender Child Megan Friddle

Über Autor(innen)

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.