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Title Texts of desire : essays on fiction, femininity, and schooling / edited by Linda K. Christian-Smith
Published London ; Washington, DC : Falmer Press, 1993

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Description xv, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Critical perspectives on literacy and education
Critical perspectives on literacy and education.
Contents 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
Analysis English fiction
Romantic fiction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Dcsire in literature
Desire in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Girls in literature.
Girls -- Books and reading.
Literacy.
Romance fiction -- History and criticism.
Romance fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Teenage girls -- Books and reading -- Australia.
Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Young adult fiction, Australian -- History and criticism.
Youth -- 20th century -- Fiction -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Christian-Smith, Linda K.
LC no. 92040175
ISBN 0750700033 (alk. paper)
0750700041 (paperback: alk. paper)