Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

<p><em>Youth Fiction and Trans Representation</em> is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant representation in literature, television, and films for children and young adults in the twenty-first century. Ranging across an array of media—including picture books, novels, graphic novels, animated cartoons, and live-action television and feature films—<i>Youth Fiction and Trans Representation</i> examines how youth texts are addressing and contributing to ongoing shifts in understandings of gender in the new millennium. While perhaps once considered inappropriate for youth, and continuing to face backlash, trans and gender variant representation in texts for young people has become more common, which signals changes in understandings of childhood and adolescence, as well as gender expression and identity. <i>Youth Fiction and Trans Representation</i> provides a broad outline of developments in trans and gender variant depictions for young people in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and closely analyzes a series of millennial literary and screen texts to consider how they communicate a range of, often competing, ideas about gender, identity, expression, and embodiment to implied child and adolescent audiences.</p> <p>Introduction: Transgender Studies and Children’s Literature</p><p>Chapter 1: Gender Nonconformity in Picture Books</p><p>Chapter 2: Trans Children in Picture Books</p><p>Chapter 3: Politicizing Gender in Young Adult Graphic Narratives</p><p>Chapter 4: Show and Tell: Authoring the Trans Subject in Young Adult Fiction</p><p>Chapter 5: Animating Gender: Subversive Gendering in Children’s Cartoons</p><p>Chapter 6: Loving and Hating Trans Youth in Adolescent Television</p><p>Chapter 7: Manning Up and Womanning Down in Young Adult Gender-Disguise Films</p><p>Chapter 8: Embodying Difference: Gender and Race in Young Adult Body-Swap Films</p><p>Conclusion</p>