This engaging study examines diverse genders and sexualities in a wide range of contemporary fiction for children and young people. Mallan's insights into key dilemmas arising from the texts' treatment of romance, beauty, cyberbodies, queer, and comedy are provocative and trustworthy, and deliver exciting theoretical and social perspectives.

Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Fiction

Mallan, K.

Teen & Young Adult

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a necessary means of survival for individuals, families, governments, and animals.</p>

Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers.

New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

Bradford, C.

Stephens, J.

McCallum, R.

Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a necessary means of survival for individuals, families, governments, and animals.

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Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Fiction

Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Fiction

Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)