Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults (Children's Literature and Culture)

Synopsis

Expanding outward from previous scholarship on gender, queerness, and heteronormativity in children’s literature, this book offers fresh insights into representations of sex and sexuality in texts for young people. In this collection, new and established scholars examine how fiction and non-fiction writing, picture books, film and television and graphic novels position young people in relation to ideologies around sexuality, sexual identity, and embodiment. This book questions how such texts communicate a sense of what is possible, impossible, taboo, or encouraged in terms of being sexual and sexual being. Each chapter is motivated by a set of important questions: How are representations of sex and sexuality depicted in texts for young people? How do these representations affect and shape the kinds of sexualities offered as models to young readers? And to what extent is sexual diversity acknowledged and represented across different narrative and aesthetic modes? This work brings together a diverse range of conceptual and theoretical approaches that are framed by the idea of sexual becoming: the manner in which texts for young people invite their readers to assess and potentially adopt ways of thinking and being in terms of sex and sexuality.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

182 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000393491

Related ISBNs:

9780367674724, 9780367674748, 9781003131434

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

06/09/21

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Paul Venzo and Kristine Moruzi

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Children's Books, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Paul Venzo

Edited by:

Kristine Moruzi