Introduction: Transgender Studies and Children’s Literature
Chapter 1: Gender Nonconformity in Picture Books
Chapter 2: Trans Children in Picture Books
Chapter 3: Politicizing Gender in Young Adult Graphic Narratives
Chapter 4: Show and Tell: Authoring the Trans Subject in Young Adult Fiction
Chapter 5: Animating Gender: Subversive Gendering in Children’s Cartoons
Chapter 6: Loving and Hating Trans Youth in Adolescent Television
Chapter 7: Manning Up and Womanning Down in Young Adult Gender-Disguise Films
Chapter 8: Embodying Difference: Gender and Race in Young Adult Body-Swap Films
Conclusion
Biography
Tom Sandercock is a casual academic at Deakin University, Australia, where he teaches courses in literary studies, children’s literature, and gender and sexuality studies. He was awarded Deakin University’s Vice-Chancellor’s Prize (2013), was a recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship (2013–2016), and his PhD thesis was shortlisted for Deakin University’s Alfred Deakin Medal (2018). He has authored several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on gender and sexual representation in television, film, and literature.
