Learning Curves

Body Image and Female Sexuality in Young Adult Literature

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Beth Younger

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Studies in Young Adult Literature

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Adolescence is a time of growth, change, and confusion for young women. During this transition from childhood to adulthood, sex and gender roles become more important. Meanwhile, depictions of females—from the hyper-sexualized girls of music videos to the chaste repression of Purity Balls—send mixed messages to young women about their bodies and their sexuality. Over the last several decades, authors of young adult novels have been challenged to reflect this concern in their work and have responded with varying degrees of success. In Learning Curves: Body Image and Female Sexuality in Young Adult Literature, Beth Younger examines how cultural assumptions and social constraints are reinforced and complicated through common representations of young women. Each chapter analyzes a recurrent theme in the history of young adult literature, including issues of body image, pregnancy, abortion, lesbianism, and romance. By examining selected novels for their sexual content, situating them within their social and historical context, and analyzing their discursive qualities, the author reveals the multitude of complex ways that society depicts teenagers and their sexualities and offers a critique of patriarchal culture that gives value to the female experience.

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Beth Younger is assistant professor of English and women's studies at Drake University.

Release date Australia

July 9th, 2009

Author

Beth Younger

Audience

Children / Juvenile

Interest Age

From 0 to 17 years

Pages

166

Series

Studies in Young Adult Literature

Dimensions

149x228x16

ISBN-13

9780810859869

Product ID

3227570

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