Ch. 1. Constituting and Reconstituting Desire: Fiction, Fantasy and Femininity / Linda K. Christian-Smith -- Ch. 2. Retailing Gender: Adolescent Book Clubs in Australian Schools / Dianne Cooper -- Ch. 3. Girls and Reading: The Desire for Agency and the Horror of Helplessness in Fictional Encounters / Meredith Rogers Cherland and Carole Edelsky -- Ch. 4. Sweet Dreams: Gender and Desire in Teen Romance Novels / Linda K. Christian-Smith -- Ch. 5. Dolly Fictions: Teen Romance Down Under / Pam Gilbert -- Ch. 6. Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature / John Willinsky and R. Mark Hunniford -- Ch. 7. The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing / Gemma Moss -- Ch. 8. Transforming the Texts: Towards A Feminist Classroom Practice / Sandra Taylor -- Ch. 9. Beyond Dualism and Towards Multiple Subjectivities / Bronwyn Davies