1st Edition
Into the Closet Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film
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
Biography
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).
"It is my hope that this book will serve as a springboard to increasingly critical scholarship about (and diverse representations within) children's literature and film."
-- Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2009
