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. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Rethinking Gender - Desire, Pleasure, and Romance: Postfeminism and Other Seductions - The Beauty Dilemma: Gendered Bodies and Aesthetic Judgement - Gendered Cyber-Bodies: The Dilemma of Technological 'Existenz' - Queer Spaces in a Straight World: The Dilemmas of Sexual Identity - No Laughing Matter... Or Is It? The Serio-Comic Side of Gender - Conclusion - Notes - References - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20251-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 236
- Fecha Publicación: 28/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés