{"product_id":"sexuality-in-literature-for-children-and-young-adults-paperback","title":"Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Venzo\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKristine Moruzi\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpanding outward from previous scholarship on gender, queerness, and heteronormativity in children's literature, this book offers fresh insights into representations of sex and sexuality in texts for young people. In this collection, new and established scholars examine how fiction and non-fiction writing, picture books, film and television and graphic novels position young people in relation to ideologies around sexuality, sexual identity, and embodiment. This book questions how such texts communicate a sense of what is possible, impossible, taboo, or encouraged in terms of being sexual and sexual being. Each chapter is motivated by a set of important questions: How are representations of sex and sexuality depicted in texts for young people? How do these representations affect and shape the kinds of sexualities offered as models to young readers? And to what extent is sexual diversity acknowledged and represented across different narrative and aesthetic modes? This work brings together a diverse range of conceptual and theoretical approaches that are framed by the idea of sexual becoming: the manner in which texts for young people invite their readers to assess and potentially adopt ways of thinking and being in terms of sex and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Venzo\u003c\/strong\u003e is a senior lecturer in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University. Paul has published widely on literature for young people, with a particular focus on representations of identity and sexuality. His writing can be found in publications such as the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Homosexuality\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of LGBT Youth\u003c\/i\u003e, including the recent article 'Mums, dads and the kids: representations of rainbow families in children's picture books' (2020). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristine Moruzi is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She published \u003cem\u003eConstructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e1915\u003c\/em\u003e in 2012. Her second monograph, \u003cem\u003eFrom Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children's Literature (1840-1940)\u003c\/em\u003e, with Michelle J Smith and Clare Bradford, was published in 2018. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 182\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42739576504383,"sku":"9780367674748","price":112.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/380d56433a7b61dd699eecdfe26419c3.webp?v=1765157115","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/sexuality-in-literature-for-children-and-young-adults-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}