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Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Fiction

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  1. Kerry Mallan
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Rethinking Gender

    • Kerry Mallan
    Pages 1-27

  3. Desire, Pleasure, and Romance: Post-Feminism and Other Seductions

    • Kerry Mallan
    Pages 28-58

  4. The Beauty Dilemma: Gendered Bodies and Aesthetic Judgement

    • Kerry Mallan
    Pages 59-92

  5. Gendered Cyber-Bodies: The Dilemma of Technological ‘Existenz’

    • Kerry Mallan
    Pages 93-124

  6. Queer Spaces in a Straight World: The Dilemma of Sexual Identity

    • Kerry Mallan
    Pages 125-155

  7. No Laughing Matter … or Is It?: The Serio-Comic Dilemma of Gender

    • Kerry Mallan
    Pages 156-194

  8. Conclusion

    • Kerry Mallan
    Pages 195-199

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 200-221
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About this book

This engaging study examines diverse genders and sexualities in a wide range of contemporary fiction for children and young people. Mallan's insights into key dilemmas arising from the texts' treatment of romance, beauty, cyberbodies, queer, and comedy are provocative and trustworthy, and deliver exciting theoretical and social perspectives.

About the author

KERRY MALLAN is Professor in Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She co-edited Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities (2003), an IRSCL Honour Book. Her most recent book, New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations (2008), is co-authored with Clare Bradford, John Stephens, and Robyn McCallum.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Fiction

  • Authors: Kerry Mallan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244559

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Kerry Mallan 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-20251-1Published: 28 August 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30057-0Published: 28 August 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24455-9Published: 28 August 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 221

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Literature, general, Children's Literature

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