1st Edition
Texts Of Desire Essays Of Fiction, Femininity And Schooling
Edited By Linda Christian-Smith
Copyright 1993
196 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
198 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
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Popular fiction continues to be the object of both academic and political Interest as educators seek to understand the role literacy plays in constructing gender, class, race, ethnic, sexual, age and national subjectivities of young women. Popular fiction represents both Ideological closure and utopian possibilities. Nowhere are these double-edged qualities more evident than In popular teen... Read more
Chapter 1 Constituting and Reconstituting Desire:Fiction, Fantasy and Femininity, Linda K. Christian-Smith; Chapter 2 Retailing Gender: Adolescent Book Clubs in Australian Schools, Dianne Cooper; Chapter 3 Girls and Reading: The Desire for Agency and the Horror of Helplessness in Fictional Encounters, Meredith Rogers Cherland, Carole Edelsky; Chapter 4 Sweet Dreams: Gender and Desire in Teen Romance Novels, Linda K. Christian-Smith; Chapter 5 Dolly Fictions: Teen Romance Down Under, Pam Gilbert; Chapter 6 Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature, John Willinsky, R. Mark Hunniford; Chapter 7 The Place for Romance in Young People’s Writing, Gemma Moss; Chapter 8 Transforming the Texts: Towards a Feminist Classroom Practice, Sandra Taylor; Chapter 9 Beyond Dualism and Towards Multiple Subjectivities, Bronwyn Davies;
Biography
Undo K. Christian-Smith is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Human Services at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Her interests include issues of gender, class, race, sexuality and age in schooling, cultural politics, feminist materialist poststructuralist theories and critical literacy. She has taught French, English and reading in elementary and secondary schools. She currently teaches courses regarding the individual, school and society relation and the curriculum and instruction in the middle school.
