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Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight


Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight


Studies in Young Adult Literature, Band 47

von: Christine Seifert

79,99 €

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 27.01.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781442246584
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 174

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<span><span>Around 2005 something surprising happened in young adult literature: YA books became obsessed with presenting characters who wanted to have sex but couldn’t—at least not without losing something vital to their identity. Since the publication of </span><span>Twilight</span><span>, the YA market has been flooded with books that feature naive virgins finding true love. While some YA novels do present nuanced depictions of sex and of healthy sexual relationships, the fiction most popular with young adult readers presents adolescent girls as virginal sex objects waiting to be fulfilled by their love interests.<br><br>In </span><span>Virginity in Young Adult Literature after</span><span> Twilight, Christine Seifert looks at an alarming trend in YA novels. Labeling this phenomenon “abstinence porn,” Seifert argues that these novels that fetishize virginity are harmful to readers. Like pornography, such works reduce female characters to objects whose sexual acts are the sole expression of their identities. Chapters in this book examine paranormal, dystopian, and contemporary romance, paying particular attention to recurring virginity themes or tropes. The book also provides an antidote by showing how some sex-positive teen novels provide more empowering messages to readers.<br><br>Organized by genre, the books were selected for this study based on their popularity with teens. Exploring how messages about virginity are sustained and repeated from text to text, this book also calls out key reader reactions to demonstrate how they are responding to these messages. Featuring a list of discussion questions, </span><span>Virginity in Young Adult Literature after</span><span> Twilight will be a valuable resource for teachers, librarians, parents, and mature young adult readers. </span></span>
<span><span>This book looks at how popular young adult literature fetishizes virginity. Christine Seifert examines how and why so much romance and dystopian fiction—the two most popular genres in YA lit—have focused on what she calls “abstinence porn”—a phenomenon that has broken out since the appearance of </span><span>Twilight</span><span> on the market. </span></span>
<span><span>Acknowledgments</span></span>
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<span><span>Introduction</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 1: From Forever to Twilight</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2: Virginity and Sex in Paranormal Novels</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3: Virginity and Sex in the Dystopia</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4: Virginity and Sex in Contemporary Teen Romance</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 5: Sex-Positive Messages in YA Literature</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 6: Beyond Twilight</span></span>
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<span><span>Selected Bibliography</span></span>
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<span><span>Index</span></span>
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<span><span>About the Author </span></span>
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<span><span>Christine Seifert</span><span> is an associate professor of communication at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she teaches rhetoric, strategy, and professional writing. A frequent contributor to </span><span>Bitch</span><span> magazine, where she writes about feminism and pop culture, Seifert is also the author of a young adult novel, </span><span>The Predicteds</span><span> (2011).</span></span>

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