Victoria Flanagan

Into the Closet

Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film

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Produktbeschreibung

Cross-dressing demonstrates how gender is symbolically constructed through various items of clothing and apparel. This title provides an analysis of different types of cross-dressing found in children's narratives, raising a number of issues relating to the ideological construction of masculinity and femininity in books for younger readers.

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Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children's fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780415980081
• ISBN-10: 0415980089
• Artikelnr.: 22595271

Autorenporträt

Victoria Flanagan completed her doctoral dissertation about cross-dressing in children's literature in 2005 at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She has published several critical articles and in 2002 contributed a chapter to Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature and Film, edited by John Stephens (Routledge, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
Children's Literature and the Cultural Discourse of Cross-dressing
Chapter 2
Cross-dressing in Children's Literature and Film: Three Models of Gender
Disguise
Chapter 3
Iconic Female Cross-dressing: The Problem of Gender in Children's
Retellings of the Story of Joan of Arc
Chapter 4
Re-framing Masculinity: The De-stabilizing Effect of the Female
Cross-dresser
Chapter 5
Funny Boys: Masculinity, Misogyny and the Carnivalesque in Children's Male
Cross-dressing Literature
Chapter 6
(Mis)Performing Gender Through a Lens: Cross-dressing in Children's Cinema
Chapter 7
Emerging Identities: Cross-dressing and Sexuality in Adolescent Fiction
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Series Editor's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1

Children's Literature and the Cultural Discourse of Cross-dressing

Chapter 2

Cross-dressing in Children's Literature and Film: Three Models of Gender Disguise

Chapter 3

Iconic Female Cross-dressing: The Problem of Gender in Children's Retellings of the Story of Joan of Arc

Chapter 4

Re-framing Masculinity: The De-stabilizing Effect of the Female Cross-dresser

Chapter 5

Funny Boys: Masculinity, Misogyny and the Carnivalesque in Children's Male Cross-dressing Literature

Chapter 6

(Mis)Performing Gender Through a Lens: Cross-dressing in Children's Cinema

Chapter 7

Emerging Identities: Cross-dressing and Sexuality in Adolescent Fiction

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Rezensionen

"This thoughtful study nevertheless makes an important contribution to the field of gender studies by not only describing the various models, but by analyzing their different functions with much care and attention to detail." - Bookbird, Vol. 47, No. 3, July 2009

"This thoughtful study nevertheless makes an important contribution to the field of gender studies by not only describing the various models, but by analyzing their different functions with much care and attention to detail." - Bookbird, Vol. 47, No. 3, July 2009