Overview

Employing international discourses in literary criticism, feminism, social sciences, film theory, psychoanalytic criticism, and queer theory, John Stephens and the contributors examine how contemporary debates on the concept of maleness is reflected and addressed in fiction and film for young audiences.

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Author:   John Stephens
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780415938617

ISBN 10:   0415938619
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   21 June 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Series Editor’s Foreword. Preface. 1. Making Boys Appear: The Masculinity of Children's Fiction, Perry Nodelman. 2. Picturing the Male: Representations of Masculinity in Picture Books, Kerry Mallan. 3. ""A Page Just Waiting to be Written on"": Masculinity Schemata and the Dynamics of Subjective Agency in Junior Fiction, John Stephens. 4. Redeeming Masculinity at the End of the Second Millennium: Narrative Reconfigurations of Masculinity in Children's Fiction, Beverley Pennell. 5. Reframing Masculinity: Female-to-Male Cross-dressing, Victoria Flanagan. 6. Come Lads and Ladettes: Gendering Bodies and Gendering Behaviors, Kimberley Reynolds. 7. Masculinity as Social Semiotic: Identity Politics and Gender in Disney Animated Films, Robyn McCallum. 8. Making the Invisible Visible: Stereotypes of Masculinity in Canonized High School Literature, Ingrid Johnston and Jyoti Mangat. 9. Challenging the Phallic Fantasy in Young Adult Fiction, Kerry Mallan. 10. Queering Hereotopic Spaces: Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy and Peter Wells' Boy Overboard, Beverley Pennell and John Stephens. 11. Trigger Pals: A Case History, Roderick McGillis. 12. Masks and Masculinity in James Barrie's Peter Pan, Monique Chassagnol. 13. Representing Masculinities in Norwegian and Australian Young Adult Fiction: A Comparative Study, Rolf Romoren and John Stephens. Bibliography. Index."

Reviews

Nonetheless, this book positions us on the right track to understanding the multiple and complex ways of being male. <br>Vol. 29 No.3<br>-Jeffrey B. Leak, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Fall 2004 <br>

Nonetheless, this book positions us on the right track to understanding the multiple and complex ways of being male. Vol. 29 No.3-Jeffrey B. Leak, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Fall 2004

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John Stephens is Professor in English at Macquarie University, Australia

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