Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction

by Kerry Mallan

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349300578
• ISBN13: 9781349300570
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"