Into the Closet: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film

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Victoria Flanagan

Into the Closet

Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film

Victoria Flanagan

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Routledge
15 August 2011

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children's fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of cross-dressing found in children's narratives, raising a number of significant issues relating to the ideological construction of masculinity and femininity in books for younger readers.

Many literary and cultural critics have studied the cultural significance of adult cross-dressing, yet although cross-dressing representations are plentiful in children's literature and film, very little critical attention has been paid to this subject to date. Into the Closet fills this critical gap. Cross-dressing demonstrates how gender is symbolically constructed through various items of clothing and apparel. It also has the ability to deconstruct notions of problematizing the relationship between sex and gender. Into the Closet is an important book for academics, teachers, and parents because it demonstrates how cross-dressing, rather than being taboo, is frequently used in children's literature and film as a strategy to educate (or enculturate) children about gender.

By: Victoria Flanagan
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780415809047
ISBN 10: 0415809045
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 15 August 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victoria Flanagan completed her doctoral dissertation about cross-dressing in children's literature in 2005 at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She has published several critical articles and in 2002 contributed a chapter to Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature and Film, edited by John Stephens (Routledge, 2002).

Reviews for Into the Closet: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film

It is my hope that this book will serve as a springboard to increasingly critical scholarship about (and diverse representations within) children's literature and film. -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2009