1st Edition
Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self (Re)constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices
Part I: Gender Influences and Identities in Literacy and Literature
Chapter 1: Outside Interest and Literate Practices as Contexts for Increasing Engagement and Critical Reading for Adolescent Boys, William G. Brozo
Chapter 2: Taking Patriarchy to Task: Youth, YouTube, and Young Adult Literature, Karen A. Krasny
Chapter 3: Masculinity and Portrayals of African-American Boys in Young Adult Literature: A Critical Deconstruction and Reconstruction of this Genre, Thomas W. Bean and Theodore Ransaw
Chapter 4: One World: Understanding the Discourse of Benevolent Girlhood through Critical Media Literacy, Elizabeth Marshall and Ozlem Sensoy
Part II: Gender Influences and Identities in New Literacies Practices
Chapter 5: The Image You Choose is the Avatar You Use: Re-thinking Gender in New Literacies, Guy Merchant
Chapter 6: Girls’ Zines as a Global Literacy Practice: Stories of Resistance and Representation, Barbara J. Guzzetti
Chapter 7: Literacies, Identities and Gender: Reframing Girls in Digital Worlds, Cheryl A.McLean
Chapter 8: Entrepreneurship Education and Gendered Discursive Practices, Donna E. Alvermann
Chapter 9: A Cautionary Tale: Online School Book Clubs Are No Panacea for African- American Adolescent Females’ Coming to Voice, Benita R. Dillard
Chapter 10: Gender, Multimodal Practices, and Global Citizenship in Rural Settings,Carla K. Meyer and Leslie Susan Cook
Chapter 11: A New Look at Girls, Gaming, and Literacies, Elisabeth Hayes
Part III: Gender and Literacy: Issues and Policies
Chapter 12: The Girl Citizen-Reader: Gender and Literacy Education for 21st Century Citizenship, Judith Dunkerly and Helen Harper
Chapter 13: Who Will "Save the Boys"?: (Re) Examining a Panic for Underachieving Boys, Michael Kehler
Chapter 14: Inventing Masculinity: Young Black Males, Literacy, and Tears, David E. Kirkland
Chapter 15: Gendered Subjectivities in Online Spaces: The Significance of Genderqueer Youth Writing Practices in a Global Time, Julie C. Ingrey
Biography
Barbara J. Guzzetti is Professor, Arizona State University, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and also Affiliated Faculty, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and School for Social Transformation, Women’s and Gender Studies.
Thomas W. Bean is Professor of Literacy/Reading at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA and Co-Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in the Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education.
