Mallan, Kerry.

Gender dilemmas in children's fiction [electronic resource] / Kerry Mallan. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - ix, 221 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-215) and index.

Desire, pleasure, and romance : post-feminism 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 dilemma of sexual identity -- No laughing matter ... or is it? : the serio-comic dilemma of gender.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
Children's stories, Commonwealth (English)--History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Sex differences in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Human body in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
Feminism in literature.


Electronic books.

PR830.C513 / M36 2009

820.9/353

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