List of Contributors
Introduction
Introduction: Matters of Gender and Childhood; Gender and Childhood Matters
Mary Zaborskis
PART I
Responding to Gendered Histories and Presents of Policing, Pathologization, and Trauma
1. Institutionalized Mad Girls: Pathologizing the Rejection of Gendered Norms in Canadian Youth, 1890-1930
Kira A. Smith
2. Gendered Violence Against the “Black Children” (Hei Haizi) Under China’s One-Child Policy and Beyond
Jingxian Wang
3. Intersex Children and Gender Identity
Samina Hadi-Tabassum
4. Girls, Speak Out! Girlhood Trauma-Telling in Aotearoa New Zealand Young Adult Literature Written by Women (1980-2020)
Marine Berthiot
5. Gendering Autistic Childhood in Picturebooks
Brandi Estey-Burtt
6. Queer Childhoods in Theory: The Monstrosity of Gender Trauma
Serena Wilcox
PART II
Images of and Imaginings for Trans, Non-Binary, and Queer Youth’s Futures
7. The Child of Trans Studies
E Lev Feinman
8. Reimagining Queer Childhood, Gender, and Trauma: Queer Trauma as a Restitutive Framework
Corpus Navalón-Guzmán
9. Black Child Out of Time: Reimagining Race, Gender, and Black Childhood
Kevin A. Blanks
10. Activism and Didacticism in Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet: Trans Embodiment and the Shifting Role of Juvenile Science Fiction
Sarah Nolan-Brueck
11. A Coming of AIDS Story: AIDS, the Abject, and Time in Abdi Nazemian’s Like a Love Story
Colin Haines
12. I Am Just Me: Non-Binary Identity in Middle-Grade Children’s Literature
Candice Lemon-Scott
PART III
Global Perspectives on Training and Assimilating Future Citizens
13. Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China
Valentina Boretti
14. Gendered Histories of Summer Camps
Jess River Vooris
15. Representation of Gender, Childhood, and National Identity in Japanese School History Textbooks: A Critical Image Analysis
Hacer Elmacı
16. “We Are Here to Protect Others”: Migrant Boys’ Adherence to and Resistance Against Gender Norms in School Lives
Boyang Yin
17. A Feminist Gaze on the Primary Curriculum Textbooks of Primary Schools in Mauritius
Meda Charisma Thondee, Suryakanti Fulena, Vikash Baichoo, and Pritee Auckloo
18. Conceptualization of Childhood and Gender in Turkish Children’s Literature
Yasemin Yılmaz Yüksek
19. Examining the Childhood Experiences of 18 Kenyan Women in Political Leadership
Lanoi Maloiy
PART IV
Gender Development in Material and Digital Cultures
20. “Girls Do Not Play the Same Kind of Games as Boys”: A Case Study of Childhood Games and Gender in County Donegal, Ireland
Megan McAuley
21. Looking For My Photograph in an Obstetrical Office
Anna Gonzalez Suero
22. The Commodified Gendered Story of Purim Costumes
Sigal Barak-Brandes
23. Engendering Pleasures: Children, Gender Identity, and the Video Game Market
Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh
24. Broadcast Your Queer Youth: YouTube and the LGBTQ+ Coming Out Genre
Jon Heggestad
PART V
Shifting and Persisting Gendered Representations in Cultural Landscapes
25. Children’s Perceptions of Queerness Towards Gender-Sensitive Language Learning in the Philippines
John Carlos M. Alvarez and Cheeno Marlo M. Sayuno
26. From Overeating to Swapping Parents: The Gendering of Emotion Regulation in Contemporary Dutch-Language Picturebooks
Rosalyn Borst
27. Fat, Fun, and Ferocious: Fatness and Gender in Disney Films based on Oral and Written Children’s Stories
Åsa Warnqvist and Mia Österlund
28. Contemporary Children’s Literature in India: Shifting Paradigms
Upama Rani and Umesh Kumar
29. The Changing Landscape of Gender in Greek and Iranian Children’s and Young Adult Books
Bahar Eshraq and Theodora Valkanou
30. Always Becoming, Never Being: Literary Girlhood
Emma K. McNamara
PART VI
Approaching Issues of Gender and Childhood from Adult Perspectives
31. Rethinking the Golden Age: Women Illustrators and Children’s Literature
Heather Colley
32. “I Can’t Say I Found It Comfortable, But I Did It”: Paternal Sexual Identities and the Sexual Health and Intimate Care of Young People With Autism
Joanne Heeney
33. Conceiving Cruel Mothers
Angelina Rao
34. Discourses of Latina Girlhood in the United States: Current Trends and Future Directions
Andrea Fernández-García
35. Critical Social Work With Girls: Forging a New Path
Alexe Bernier
Biography
Mary Zaborskis is an assistant professor of American Studies and Gender Studies at Penn State Harrisburg. She works at the intersections of queer, critical race, and childhood studies in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature and culture.
