This interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between violence, empowerment, and the teenage super/heroine in comics and young adult fantasy novels. Th

Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literatur

This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environme

The Coloniality of Animal Monstrous Othering in Children’s Books, Films, and Toys examines how the portrayal of animals as physically distorted, behaviorally

This collection approaches the deconstruction of American "childhood" from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construc