Gender(ed) Identities

Abstract

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: 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)