When more than 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr.
Larry Nassar when they were young, competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed …

Sexuality in children's literature has a lengthy history, beginning with oral folktales designed
to warn girls about straying from the path and the dangers of the big bad wolf. Yet much of …

ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the acclaimed Chicana
YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández, Isabel Quintero, Ashley Hope Pérez, Erika Sánchez …

This chapter offers a feminist analysis of two young adult (YA) sexual assault narratives
about gang rape and revenge: Hannah Capin's Foul Is Fair (2020) and Amy Reed's The …

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children's
literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by exploring …

As the guest editors of this special issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal we
invited comics and media scholars to discuss girlhood from the perspective of transnational …

Life writing folds into the larger framework of nonfiction, a genre that has received increasing
attention since the implementation of the Common Core Nonfiction Reading Standards in …

This chapter explores the often‐competing ideologies of girlhood in graphic narratives for
children. The author demonstrates how visual representations of girlhood in children's texts …

In light of the global# Metoo movement, this paper examines a set of young adult (YA)
novels where the authors navigate two cultural taboos–underage drinking and sexual …

Menacing Environments Page 1 Menacing Environments Bigelow, Benjamin A. Published by
University of Washington Press Bigelow, Benjamin A. Menacing Environments: Ecohorror in …