The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
Title | The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Miller |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2022-05-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1496840038 |
In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the 1970s to the present. Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts in the visibility of LGBTQ+ identities. Additionally, Miller considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work defines the field of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books thoroughly, yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze the transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books. Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ+ children’s picture books are an essential world-making project and seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant historical archive that reflects material and representational shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and sexuality.
The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
Title | The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Miller (Ph. D.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Homosexuality |
ISBN | 9781496840028 |
"In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ Children's Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children's picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ characters and content from the 1970s to the present. Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts in the visibility of LGBTQ identities. Additionally, Miller considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ children's picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work defines the field of LGBTQ children's picture books thoroughly, yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ Children's Picture Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze the transformative potential of LGBTQ children's picture books. Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ children's picture books are an essential world-making project and seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant historical archive that reflects material and representational shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and sexuality"--
The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
Title | The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Miller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2022-06-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781496840004 |
A foundational look at the way children's books shaped views of the LGBTQ+ world
The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
Title | The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Miller |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2022-05-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1496840011 |
In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the 1970s to the present. Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts in the visibility of LGBTQ+ identities. Additionally, Miller considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work defines the field of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books thoroughly, yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze the transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books. Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ+ children’s picture books are an essential world-making project and seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant historical archive that reflects material and representational shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and sexuality.
Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
Title | Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Miller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-01-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781496854902 |
An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children's picture books
The Queer Art of Failure
Title | The Queer Art of Failure PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Halberstam |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2011-09-19 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0822350459 |
DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div
Teaching Tough Topics
Title | Teaching Tough Topics PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Swartz |
Publisher | Pembroke Publishers Limited |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2020-01-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1551389428 |
Teaching Tough Topics shows teachers how to lead students to become caring citizens as they read and respond to quality children’s literature. It focuses on topics that can be challenging or sensitive, yet are significant in order to build understanding of social justice, diversity, and equity. Racism, Homophobia, Bullying, Religious Intolerance, Poverty, and Physical and Mental Challenges are just some of the themes explored. The book is rooted in the belief that by using picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction, teachers can enrich learning with compassion and empathy as students make connections to texts, to others, and to the world.