Literacies, Sexualities, and Gender: Understanding Identities from Preschool to Adulthood

ISBN-13: 9781138312012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 230 str.

Barbara Guzzetti; Thomas W. Bean; Judith Dunkerly-Bean

Opis

With a focus on current events, race, and the complex role of identity, this text provides a much-needed update to the ways representations and performances of gender and sexualities through literacy practices are viewed in educational and sociocultural contexts.

Spis treści

Section I. Gender, Sexualities, and Early Childhood Literacies  1. Navigating Gender and Social Influences on Early Literacy Development  2. Preschool-Aged Children’s Gender Identity Development: Exploring Gender Through Multicultural Literature  3. Child’s Play: Reading and Remaking Gendered Action Texts with Toys  Section II. Gender, Sexualities, and Childhood Literacies  4. A Literacy of Resistance: Girlhood and Domestic Violence  5. Gender in the Making: Literacies and Identities in Girls’ Self-Initiated Making Activities  6. Understanding How Indigenous Latinx Children Express Gender Identities  Section III. Gender, Sexualities, and Adolescent Literacies  Chapter 7. "Holy gendered resource, Batman!": Examining the Broader Application of Comics and Superhero Fiction Beyond Their Restrictive Relationship with Boys  8. "This Is Why We Talk About Race and Sexuality, Too": Challenging White Feminism in and Through Literacy  9. How Gender and Intersectionality Inform Adolescent Literacy  10. "Outside Voices": Justice-System Involved Adolescent Males Writing Their Identities  11. Embedding the Complexities of Gender Identity Through a Pedagogy of Refusal: Learning the Body as Literacy Alongside Youth  12. Breaking Gender Expectations: Adolescents’ Critical Rewriting of a Trans Young Adult Novel  13. Defining Gender and Sexuality in LGBTQ Memoirs  Section IV. Gender, Sexualities, and Adult Literacies  14. Performing and Resisting Toxic Masculinities on Sports News Comment Boards  15. Transnational Women’s Online Literacies: Writing as Social Action  16. Diverse Men Making Media: Creating Cultural (Re)Constructions of Gender and Race  17. Reading Fatherhood: The Importance of Fathers in Children’s Literacy Development