Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart: Coming Together

I am like the needy knife-grinder — I have no story to tell. — Maria Edgeworth I dwell in Possibility — A fairer House than Prose — More numerous of Windows — Superior — for Doors — Emily Dickinson ... the modes of fainting should be all as different as possible and may be made very diverting. — The Girls’ Book of Diversions (ca. (1840) From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women. How unwomanly to discuss it! — Carolyn Kizer

The madwoman in the attic :the woman writer and thenineteenth-century literary imagination

Reviewed Medium: book
 Authors: Linda Hutcheon
 Year: 2000
 Pages: xx + 143
 Publisher: University of Illinois Press
 Prices: $14.95

A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms

Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery

Acknowledgements Introduction: From Antebellum Hoyden to Millennial Girl Power The Unwritten History (and Hidden History) of Tomboyism in the United States 1. The White Tomboy Launches a Gender Backlash: E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand 2. The Tomboy Becomes a Cultural Phenomenon: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women 3. The Tomboy Matures Into the New Woman: Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor 4. The Tomboy is Reinvented an the Exercise Enthusiast: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland 5. The Tomboy Becomes the All-Americanizing Girl: Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia 6. The Tomboy Shifts From Feminist to Flapper: Clara Bow in Victor Fleming's Hula 7. The Tomboy Turns Freakishly Queer and Queerly Freakish: Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding 8. The Tomboy Becomes the "Odd Girl Out": Ann Bannon's Women in the Shadows 9. The Tomboy Returns to Hollywood: Tatum O'Neal in Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon Selected Bibliography Works Cited Index Photographs follow page 144

Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History

""Over the Rainbow" is lively, engaging, and thoughtful. More to the point, the field of children's literature needs such a collection."---Katherine Capshaw Smith, University of ConnecticutIn spite of the growing critical interest concerning gender and sexual nonnormativity in and around narratives written for young readers, no book-length volume on the subject has yet appeared. "Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature" is the first collection of essays dedicated to LGBTQ issues in children's literature. Bringing together significant essays and introducing new work, "Over the Rainbow" is intended to serve both as a scholarly reference and as a textbook for students of children's studies; gender/queer studies; and related disciplines such as English, history, sociology, and education. Editors Michelle Ann Abate and Kenneth Kidd showcase important essays on the subject of LGBTQ children's and young adult literature ---including "Harriet the Spy, Rainbow Boys, Little Women," the "Harry Potter" series, and "A Separate Peace"---while providing a provisional history of both the literature and the scholarship and examining the field's origins, current status, and possible future orientations."Over the Rainbow" collects essays by Jes Battis, Robin Bernstein, Thomas Crisp, June Cummins, Elizabeth A. Ford, Sherrie A. Inness, Christine A. Jenkins, Vanessa Wayne Lee, Biddy Martin, Robert McRuer, Claudia Nelson, Jody Norton, Tison Pugh, Catherine Tosenberger, Eric L. Tribunella, Roberta Seelinger Trites, and Andrea Wood. These pieces will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of children's literature, American Studies, LGBTQ and queer studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism.Cover art: Original title page of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," by Frank L. Baum, illustrated by W. W. Denslow. New York: George M. Hill, 1900.

Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature

Perhaps more than any other genre of children’s literature, picture books have been in the spotlight of late. Intended for the youngest and thus seemingly most innocent of child readers, they have also historically been associated with the most innocent of subject matters. In stark contrast to narratives for young adults that have become famous for their engagement with mature issues like drugs, divorce, and sexuality; picture books have commonly been connected with more lighthearted subject matter. In classic titles like The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), Goodnight Moon (1947), and The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969), the gravest adventures involve mischievously nibbling on some carrots in a forbidden garden, not wanting to go to bed, and being preoccupied by an array of different delicious foods. During the final few decades of the twentieth century, the traditionally innocuous subject matter of picture books begun to change. In the wake of growing societal beliefs that adults ought to be more honest and open with children, new narratives appeared that discussed topics which had previously been overlooked, ignored, or even forbidden. From the serious subject of same-sex parenting in Heather Has Two Mommies (1989) and Daddy’s Roommate (1991) to the humorous issue of bodily functions inEveryone Poops (1993, English language version) and Walter, the Farting Dog (2001), these books pushed the boundaries of the genre in new and even daring directions. In the years since, the range and variety of picture books meant to address formerly off-limits subject matter has only increased. In 2005, for example, Anne-Marie Gillet and Isabelle

“Plastic Makes Perfect”: My Beautiful Mommy, Cosmetic Surgery, and the Medicalization of Motherhood

Launching a Gender B(l)acklash: E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand and the Emergence of (Racialized) White Tomboyism

Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. "Bloody Murder" is the first full-length critical study of this pervasive theme of murder in children's literature. Through rereadings of well-known works, such as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", the "Nancy Drew Mystery Stories", and "The Outsiders", Michelle Ann Abate explores how acts of homicide connect these works with an array of previously unforeseen literary, social, political, and cultural issues. Topics range from changes in the America criminal justice system, the rise of forensic science, and shifting attitudes about crime and punishment to changing cultural conceptions about the nature of evil and the different ways that murder has been popularly presented and socially interpreted. "Bloody Murder" adds to the body of inquiry into America's ongoing fascination with violent crime. Abate argues that when narratives for children are considered along with other representations of homicide in the United States, they not only provide a more accurate portrait of the range, depth, and variety of crime literature, they also alter existing ideas about the meaning of violence, the emotional appeal of fear, and the cultural construction of death and dying.

Michelle Ann Abate

Papers

Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History

Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature

“Plastic Makes Perfect”: My Beautiful Mommy, Cosmetic Surgery, and the Medicalization of Motherhood

Launching a Gender B(l)acklash: E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand and the Emergence of (Racialized) White Tomboyism

Bloody Murder: The Homicide Tradition in Children's Literature