Gender(ed) Identities (Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature)

This diverse, cross-disciplinary volume examines gender construction in children's and YA literature, complementing and updating scholarship on this topic via a rich examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. Across genres, eras, and national literatures, the book explores how readers encounter unorthodox as well as traditional notions of gender. This volume provides an updated range of multidisciplinary and methodologically diverse analyses of critically and commercially successful children's and YA texts, contributing to the scholarship on children's and YA literature, gender and sexuality, women's studies, and other disciplines.