Gender dilemmas in children's fiction
By: Kerry Mallan.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230202511
Subjects: Children's stories, English -- History and criticism; Children's stories, American -- History and criticism; Children's stories, Commonwealth (English) -- History and criticism; Gender identity in literature; Sex differences in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Human body in literature; Homosexuality in literature; Feminism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Desire, pleasure, and romance: postfeminism and other seductions; title: The beauty dilemma: gendered bodies and aesthetic judgement; title: Gendered cyber-bodies: the dilemma of technological 'existenz'; title: Queer spaces in a straight world: the dilemmas of sexual identity; title: No laughing matter ... or is it?: the serio-comic side of gender.