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Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature book cover

1st Edition

Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature

By Elizabeth Little Copyright 2025
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge
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Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature takes advantage of growing critical interest in popular young adult texts and their influence on young people. The monograph offers an innovative approach by pairing traditional literary analysis with the responses of readers to show the complex ways that young people respond to the depiction of female protagonists. In... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

 

SECTION I: Contemporary young adult fantasy literature

 

Chapter 2: “I swear this happens in all of these books”: femininity, agency and sexuality in popular young adult fantasy novels

 

Chapter 3: Postfeminism in the A Court of Thorns and Roses and Red Queen series

 

SECTION II: Girl readers' reading of young adult fantasy

 

Chapter 4: "It's our turn to talk books": The girl participants

 

Chapter 5: “Girls can actually do something, you know”: femininity and gender in ACOTAR and Red Queen

 

Chapter 6 - “Her lack of choices is the whole point of the plot”: agency and power in ACOTAR and Red Queen

 

Chapter 7: “That’s the good stuff” – romance and sexuality in ACOTAR and Red Queen

 

Chapter 8: "When can we do this again?": Concluding thoughts on postfeminism and popular young adult fantasy texts

Biography

Elizabeth Little is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.


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