Ways of Being Male : Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature and Film

Given The Substantial Impact Of Feminism On Children's Literature And Culture During The Last Quarter Century, It Comes As No Surprise That Gender Studies Have Focused Predominantly On Issues Of Female Representation. The Question Of How The Same Patriarchal Ideology Structured Representations Of Male Bodies And Behaviors Was Until Very Recently A Marginal Discussion. Now That Masculinity Has Emerges As An Overt Theme In Children's Literature And Film, Critical Consideration Of The Subject Is Timely, If Not Long Overdue. Ways Of Being Male Addresses This New Concern In An Unprecedented Collection Of Essays Examining How Contemporary Debates About Masculinity Are Reflected In Fiction And Film For Young Adults. An Outstanding Team Of Scholars Elucidates The Ways In Which Different Versions Of Male Identity Are Constructed And Presented To Young Audiences. The Contributors, Drawn From A Variety Of Academic Disciplines, Employ International Discourses In Literary Criticism, Feminism, Social Sciences, Film Theory, Psychoanalytic Criticism, And Queer Theory In Their Wide-ranging Exploration Of Male Representation. With Its Illuminating Array Of Perspectives, This Pioneering Survey Brings A Long Neglected Subject Into Sharp Focus.--pub. Desc. Making Boys Appear : The Masculinity Of Children's Fiction / Perry Nodelman -- Picturing The Male : Representations Of Masculinity In Picture Books / Kerry Mallan -- A Page Just Waiting To Be Written On : Masculinity Schemata And The Dynamics Of Subjective Agency In Junior Fiction / John Stephens -- Redeeming Masculinity At The End Of The Second Millennium / Beverley Pennell -- Reframing Masculinity : Female-to-male Cross-dressing / Victoria Flanagan -- Come Lads And Ladettes : Gendering Bodies And Gendering Behaviors / Kimberley Reynolds -- Masculinity As Social Semiotic : Identity Politics And Gender In Disney Animated Films / Robyn Mccallum -- Making The Invisible Visible : Stereotypes Of Masculinity In Canonized High School Literature / Ingrid Johnston And Jyoti Mangat -- Challenging The Phallic Fantasy In Young Adult Fiction / Kerry Mallan -- Queering Heterotopic Spaces : Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy And Peter Wells's Boy Overboard / Beverley Pennell And John Stephens -- Trigger Pals : A Case History / Roderick Mcgillis -- Masks And Masculinity In James Barrie's Peter Pan / Monique Chassagnol -- Representing Masculinities In Norwegian And Australian Young Adult Fiction : A Comparative Study / Rolf Romoren And John Stephens. Edited By John Stephens. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 234-254) And Indexes. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Series Editor's Foreword 9 Preface 10 CHAPTER 1 MAKING BOYS APPEAR: THE MASCULINITY OF CHILDREN'S FICTION 16 CHAPTER 2 PICTURING THE MALE: REPRESENTATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN PICTURE BOOKS 30 CHAPTER 3 "A PAGE JUST WAITING TO BE WRITTEN ON": MASCULINITY SCHEMATA AND THE DYNAMICS OF SUBJECTIVE AGENCY IN JUNIOR FICTION 53 CHAPTER 4 REDEEMING MASCULINITY AT THE END OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM: NARRATIVE RECONFIGURATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN CHILDREN'S FICTION 70 CHAPTER 5 REFRAMING MASCULINITY: FEMALE-TO-MALE CROSS-DRESSING 93 CHAPTER 6 COME LADS AND LADETTES: GENDERING BODIES AND GENDERING BEHAVIORS 111 CHAPTER 7 MASCULINITY AS SOCIAL SEMIOTIC: IDENTITY POLITICS AND GENDER IN DISNEY ANIMATED FILMS 131 CHAPTER 8 MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: STEREOTYPES OF MASCULINITY IN CANONIZED HIGH SCHOOL LITERATURE 148 CHAPTER 9 CHALLENGING THE PHALLIC FANTASY IN YOUNG ADULT FICTION 165 CHAPTER 10 QUEERING HETEROTOPIC SPACES: SHYAM SELVADURAI'S FUNNY BOY AND PETER WELLS'S BOY OVERBOARD 179 CHAPTER 11 TRIGGER PALS: A CASE HISTORY 200 CHAPTER 12 MASKS AND MASCULINITY IN JAMES BARRIE'S PETER PAN 215 CHAPTER 13 REPRESENTING MASCULINITIES IN NORWEGIAN AND AUSTRALIAN YOUNG ADULT FICTION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY 231 Bibliography 249 Subject Index 270 Name and Title Index 273 In the children's fiction course I teach at the University of Winnipeg, I have always included texts that promote discussion of the ways that literature influences a reader's understanding of what it means to be of a specific sex and gender.