Girls Transforming: Invisibility and Age-Shifting in Children's Fantasy Fiction Since the 1970s

by Sanna Lehtonen

This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786461365
• ISBN13: 9780786461363
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher