Learning curves
Subtitle: body image and female sexuality in young adult literature
By: Beth Younger.
Series: Scarecrow studies in young adult literature -- no. 35
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780810859869; 9780810869509
Subjects: Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism; Teenage girls in literature; Body image in literature; Sex (Psychology) in literature; Femininity in literature; Adolescence in literature; Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Do I look fat? body image in YA literature; title: Do the right thing: pregnancy and female sexuality; title: Keeping you a secret: lesbian YA literature; title: Girl meets boy: romance, repression, and the male predator; title: Series fiction and chick lit: from Nancy Drew to gossip girl.