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Texts of desire : essays on fiction, femininity, and schooling

Title
  1. Texts of desire : essays on fiction, femininity, and schooling / edited by Linda K. Christian-Smith.
Published by
  1. London ; Washington, DC : Falmer Press, 1993.

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Additional authors
  1. Christian-Smith, Linda K.
Description
  1. xv, 180 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series statement
  1. Critical perspectives on literacy and education
Uniform title
  1. Critical perspectives on literacy and education.
Subject
  1. Young adult fiction, American > History and criticism
  2. Girls in literature
  3. Young adult fiction, Australian > History and criticism
  4. Teenage girls > Books and reading > Australia
  5. Femininity in literature
  6. Romance fiction > History and criticism
  7. Desire in literature
  8. Daughters in literature
  9. Daughters in literature
  10. Desire in literature
  11. Femininity in literature
  12. Girls in literature
  13. Romance-language fiction
  14. Teenage girls > Books and reading
  15. Young adult fiction, American
  16. Young adult fiction, Australian
  17. Féminité (psychologie) dans la littérature
  18. Amour > Dans la littérature
  19. féminité > littérature pour la jeunesse > études diverses
  20. femme > littérature pour la jeunesse > études diverses
  21. désir > littérature pour la jeunesse > études diverses
  22. Australia
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. Constituting and Reconstituting Desire: Fiction, Fantasy and Femininity / Linda K. Christian-Smith -- Ch. 2. Retailing Gender: Adolescent Book Clubs in Australian Schools / Dianne Cooper -- Ch. 3. Girls and Reading: The Desire for Agency and the Horror of Helplessness in Fictional Encounters / Meredith Rogers Cherland and Carole Edelsky -- Ch. 4. Sweet Dreams: Gender and Desire in Teen Romance Novels / Linda K. Christian-Smith -- Ch. 5. Dolly Fictions: Teen Romance Down Under / Pam Gilbert -- Ch. 6. Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature / John Willinsky and R. Mark Hunniford -- Ch. 7. The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing / Gemma Moss -- Ch. 8. Transforming the Texts: Towards A Feminist Classroom Practice / Sandra Taylor -- Ch. 9. Beyond Dualism and Towards Multiple Subjectivities / Bronwyn Davies.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.