ABSTRACT

Offering diverse and wide-ranging perspectives on gender, sexualities, and literacies, this volume examines the intersection of these topics from preschool to adulthood. With a focus on current events, race, and the complex role of identity, this text starts with an overview of the current research on gender and sexualities in literacies and interrogates them from a range of multimodal contexts. Not restricted to any gender identity or age group, these chapters provide a much-needed and original update to the ways representations and performances of gender and sexualities through literacy practices are viewed in educational and sociocultural contexts. Scholars share their insights and transformative visions that respect and embrace difference while creating space for new and deeper understandings of contemporary issues.

part I|38 pages

Gender, Sexualities, and Early Childhood Literacies

chapter 2|12 pages

Preschool-Aged Children’s Gender Identity Development

Exploring Gender Through Multicultural Literature

chapter 3|12 pages

Child’s Play

Reading and Remaking Gendered Action Texts with Toys

part II|37 pages

Gender, Sexualities, and Childhood Literacies

chapter 4|13 pages

A Literacy of Resistance

Girlhood and Domestic Violence

chapter 5|12 pages

Gender in the Making

Literacies and Identities in Girls’ Self-Initiated Making Activities

part III|90 pages

Gender, Sexualities, and Adolescent Literacies

chapter 7|14 pages

“Holy Gendered Resource, Batman!”

Examining the Broader Application of Comics and Superhero Fiction Beyond Their Restrictive Relationship with Boys

chapter 8|12 pages

“This Is Why We Talk About Race and Sexuality, Too”

Challenging White Feminism in and Through Literacies

chapter 10|11 pages

“Outside Voices”

Justice-System Involved Adolescent Males Writing Their Identities

chapter 11|13 pages

Embedding the Complexities of Gender Identity Through a Pedagogy of Refusal

Learning the Body as Literacy Alongside Youth

chapter 12|14 pages

Breaking Gender Expectations

Adolescents’ Critical Rewriting of a Trans Young Adult Novel

part IV|53 pages

Gender, Sexualities, and Adult Literacies

chapter 15|11 pages

Transnational Women’s Online Literacies

Writing as Social Action

chapter 16|15 pages

Diverse Men Making Media

Creating Cultural (Re)Constructions of Gender and Race

chapter 17|12 pages

Reading Fatherhood

The Importance of Fathers in Children’s Literacy Development