Ways of Being Male

Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature

By: John Stephens (Editor)

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Hardcover | 21 June 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Given the substantial impact of feminism on children's literature and culture during the last quarter century, it comes as no surprise that gender studies have focused predominantly on issues of female representation. The question of how the same patriarchal ideology structured representations of male bodies and behaviors was until very recently a marginal discussion. Now that masculinity has emerges as an overt theme in children's literature and film, critical consideration of the subject is timely, if not long overdue

Ways of Being Male addresses this new concern in an unprecedented collection of essays examining how contemporary debates about masculinity are reflected in fiction and film for young adults. An outstanding team of scholars elucidates the ways in which different versions of male identity are constructed and presented to young audiences. The contributors, drawn from a variety of academic disciplines, employ international discourses in literary criticism, feminism, social sciences, film theory, psychoanalytic criticism, and queer theory in their wide-ranging exploration of male representation. With its illuminating array of perspectives, this pioneering survey brings a long neglected subject into sharp focus.

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Vol. 29 No.3
"This book positions us on the right track to understanding the multiple and complex "ways of being male." -- Jeffrey B. Leak, Children'sLiterature Association Quarterly

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Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
Making Boys Appear: The Masculinity of Children's Fiction	p. 1
Picturing the Male: Representations of Masculinity in Picture Books	p. 15
"A Page Just Waiting to be Written on": Masculinity Schemata and the Dynamics of Subjective Agency in Junior Fiction	p. 38
Redeeming Masculinity at the End of the Second Millennium: Narrative Reconfigurations of Masculinity in Children's Fiction	p. 55
Reframing Masculinity: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing	p. 78
Come Lads and Ladettes: Gendering Bodies and Gendering Behaviors	p. 96
Masculinity as Social Semiotic: Identity Politics and Gender in Disney Animated Films	p. 116
Making the Invisible Visible: Stereotypes of Masculinity in Canonized High School Literature	p. 133
Challenging the Phallic Fantasy in Young Adult Fiction	p. 150
Queering Heterotopic Spaces: Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy and Peter Wells's Boy Overboard	p. 164
Trigger Pals: A Case History	p. 185
Masks and Masculinity in James Barrie's Peter Pan	p. 200
Representing Masculinities in Norwegian and Australian Young Adult Fiction: A Comparative Study	p. 216
Bibliography	p. 234
Subject Index	p. 255
Name and Title Index	p. 258
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