Gender dilemmas in children's fiction

• Main Author: Mallan, Kerry, 1951-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
• Subjects: literatura pro děti a mládež; gender; sexualita; feminismus a literatura; homosexualita a literatura; children's and juvenile literature; sexuality; feminism and literature; homosexuality and literature; studie; studies
• ISBN: 9780230202511
• Physical Description: ix, 221 s. ; 22 cm

Table of Contents:

• 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