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...
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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. 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-215) and index
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Contents ; List of Figures ; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Rethinking Gender; 1 Desire, Pleasure, and Romance: Post-Feminism and Other Seductions ; 2 The Beauty Dilemma: Gendered Bodies and Aesthetic Judgement ; 3 Gendered Cyber-Bodies: The Dilemma of Technological 'Existenz' ; 4 Queer Spaces in a Straight World: The Dilemma of Sexual Identity ; 5 No Laughing Matter … or Is It?: The Serio-Comic Dilemma of Gender ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; Index
