The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood

Mary Zaborskis is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Gender Studies at Penn State Harrisburg. She works at the intersection of queer, critical race, and childhood studies in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature and culture.

Introduction: Matters of Gender and Childhood; Gender and Childhood Matters PART I: Responding to Gendered Histories and Presents of Policing, Pathologization, and Trauma 1. Institutionalized Mad Girls: Pathologizing the Rejection of Gendered Norms in Canadian Youth, 1890-1930 2. Gendered Violence Against the “Black Children” (Hei Haizi) Under China’s One-Child Policy and Beyond 3. Intersex Children and Gender Identity 4. Girls, Speak Out! Girlhood Trauma-Telling in Aotearoa New Zealand Young Adult Literature Written by Women (1980-2020) 5. Gendering Autistic Childhood in Picturebooks 6. Queer Childhoods in Theory: The Monstrosity of Gender Trauma PART II: Images of and Imaginings for Trans, Non-Binary, and Queer Youth’s Futures 7. The Child of Trans Studies 8. Reimagining Queer Childhood, Gender, and Trauma: Queer Trauma as a Restitutive Framework 9. Black Child Out of Time: Reimagining Race, Gender, and Black Childhood 10. Activism and Didacticism in Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet: Trans Embodiment and the Shifting Role of Juvenile Science Fiction 11. A Coming of AIDS Story: AIDS, the Abject, and Time in Abdi Nazemian’s Like a Love Story 12. I Am Just Me: Non-Binary Identity in Middle-Grade Children’s Literature PART III: Global Perspectives on Training and Assimilating Future Citizens 13. Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China 14. Gendered Histories of Summer Camps 15. Representation of Gender, Childhood, and National Identity in Japanese School History Textbooks: A Critical Image Analysis 16. “We Are Here to Protect Others”: Migrant Boys’ Adherence to and Resistance Against Gender Norms in School Lives 17. A Feminist Gaze on the Primary Curriculum Textbooks of Primary Schools in Mauritius 18. Conceptualization of Childhood and Gender in Turkish Children’s Literature 19. Examining the Childhood Experiences of 18 Kenyan Women in Political Leadership PART IV: Gender Development in Material and Digital Cultures 20. “Girls do not play the same kind of games as boys”: A Case Study of Childhood Games and Gender in County Donegal, Ireland 21. Looking For My Photograph in an Obstetrical Office 22. The Commodified Gendered Story of Purim Costumes 23. Engendering Pleasures: Children, Gender Identity and the Video Game Market 24. Broadcast Your Queer Youth: YouTube and the LGBTQ+ Coming Out Genre PART V: Shifting and Persisting Gendered Representations in Cultural Landscapes 25. Children’s Perceptions of Queerness Towards Gender-Sensitive Language Learning in the Philippines 26. From Overeating to Swapping Parents: The Gendering of Emotion Regulation in Contemporary Dutch-Language Picturebooks 27. Fat, Fun, and Ferocious: Fatness and Gender in Disney Films based on Oral and Written Children’s Stories 28. Contemporary Children’s Literature in India: Shifting Paradigms 29. The Changing Landscape of Gender in Greek and Iranian Children’s and Young Adult Books 30. Always Becoming, Never Being: Literary Girlhood PART VI: Approaching Issues of Gender and Childhood from Adult Perspectives 31. Rethinking the Golden Age: Women Illustrators and Children’s Literature 32. “I Can’t Say I Found It Comfortable, But I Did It”: Paternal Sexual Identities and the Sexual Health and Intimate Care of Young People With Autism 33. Conceiving Cruel Mothers 34. Discourses of Latina Girlhood in the United States: Current Trends and Future Directions 35. Critical Social Work With Girls: Forging a New Path