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This collection merges representations of children and youth in various science fiction texts with childhood studies theories and debates. Set in the past, present, and future, science fiction landscapes and technologies sometimes constrain, but often expand, agentic expression, movement, and collaboration.

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Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds draws on childhood studies scholarship to contextualize childrens agentic entanglements with fantasy. Fantasy offers children opportunities for greater peer connectivity, identity exploration, holistic citizenry, and creative empowerment.

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This collection, representing the work of scholars from a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines, examines aspects of the preoccupation with children and childhood in Steven Spielbergs films. It includes essays on such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, and more.

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This collection, representing the work of scholars from a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines, examines aspects of the preoccupation with children and childhood in Steven Spielberg's films. It includes essays on such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T...

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This book analyzes figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics focusing on critical childhood studies. Looking at critical discussions of the ideological, symbolic and affective roles that children play in contemporary societies suggest that they are often th...

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This book analyzes figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics focusing on critical childhood studies. Looking at critical discussions of the ideological, symbolic and affective roles that children play in contemporary societies suggest that they are often the locus of larger societal crises, and unspoken prohibitions and taboos.

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This book studies the development of expressions of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from 1850 to 1965. It suggests that during this time, adolescent girls went from being perceived as innocent, asexual beings to beings that were considered primarily sexual in nature.

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This collection explores the influence of girls series books on popular American culture and girls everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts.

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This collection explores the influence of girls series books on popular American culture and girls everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts.

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Growing up in Latin America is a collection of essays centered on the representation of the political and historical agency of children and youth within the sociohistorical panorama of Latin American countries during the 20th and 21st centuries. Questions of gender, migration, ...

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This book analyzes the use of animal imagery in childrens literature produced by British writers. It encapsulates the agenda of consciously training British children through underscoring resources and fauna in India pursued by the British society in the nineteenth century Victorian England.

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This collection of essays turns to misfit children as those found in-between socio-cultural, psychological and physical realms. It explores both the possibilities and futilities of negotiating this in-betweenness.

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This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issues in select novels.

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This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issues in select novels.

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Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in childrens lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.

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Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in childrens lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.

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Using Bronfenbrenners Ecological Systems Theory and Peter Langmans categorical descriptions of school shooters, this book analyzes several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence and the perpetrators while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers

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This edited volume performs a critical analysis of the Amricas Award, issues related to the content of the award-winning and honored books, and the contexts in which the books are used. It includes chapters by key scholars in the areas of youth literature in English, English Education, Library and Information Science, and Ethnic Studies.

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This volume offers compelling analyses of children and childhood in non-Western films.

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This edited volume, working within the specific frame of the affective turn in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America, compiles a series of essays on children's presence in selected Latin American literary and cinematic expressions.

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This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in childrens literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volumes contributions interrogate how childrens literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most impressionable segments of our population.

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This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in childrens literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volumes contributions interrogate how childrens literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most impressionable segments of our population.

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Young adult literature uses literary sidekicks in new and exciting ways, which changes how sidekicks are understood. Three ways authors elevate sidekicks include letting sidekicks evolve over the course of multiple texts, using parallel novels to add complexity to a sidekicks characterization, and telling a story from the sidekicks perspective.

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This book looks at the portrayals of girls on Disney and Nickelodeon tweencoms. It covers character tropes like main girls, mean girls, cheerleaders, and adults as well as special topics such as popularity, friendships, and girl power.