Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults - Paperback

by Paul Venzo (Editor), Kristine Moruzi (Editor)

Expanding outward from previous scholarship on gender, queerness and heteronormativity in children's literature, this book offers fresh insights into representations of sex and sexuality in texts for young people.

Author Biography

Paul Venzo is a senior lecturer in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University. Paul has published widely on literature for young people, with a particular focus on representations of identity and sexuality. His writing can be found in publications such as the Journal of Homosexuality and the Journal of LGBT Youth, including the recent article 'Mums, dads and the kids: representations of rainbow families in children's picture books' (2020).

Kristine Moruzi is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She published Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 in 2012. Her second monograph, From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children's Literature (1840-1940), with Michelle J Smith and Clare Bradford, was published in 2018.