By K. Mallan
This enticing research examines assorted genders and sexualities in a variety of modern fiction for kids and teenagers. Mallans insights into key dilemmas bobbing up from the texts therapy of romance, attractiveness, cyberbodies, queer, and comedy are provocative and reliable, and convey intriguing theoretical and social views.
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Since the time of Mulvey’s influential essay ‘Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema’ (1975), visual pleasure has come under scrutiny, particularly with its inextricable ties to a patriarchal system of gender hierarchy. Mulvey’s original argument was that in classic realist cinema, ‘woman’ is constituted as image and as such is the object to-belooked-at while the male is constituted as the bearer of the gaze. These two positions produce contradictory viewing pleasures – scopophilia, which arouses sexual stimulation and objectifies the person looked at, and narcissism, which Mulvey describes as a process of identification with the image on the screen.
Third World Feminists cast their political net to encompass women of colour and other marginalised women, which can be seen as going beyond the populist writings of high-profile, post-feminist writers such as Naomi Wolf. As Gamble notes: ‘In tracing its origins back to the activism of the US immigrant community, it roots itself in a process of social and political endeavour that doesn’t begin and end with the white middle classes, the point at which Wolf’s analysis founders’ (2001, p. 44). While Third Wave Feminism makes a conscious attempt to attend to the politics of difference, it is difficult for any movement to offer solutions to the persistent and changing conditions and dilemmas associated with gender and sexuality.
Working within a Post-feminist/Third Wave Feminist context, this chapter explores how various narratives for young people construct desire and how it is played out as part of uneasy gender relations. Desire is the structuring principle of literature in that it drives a narrative and seduces readers by working on their own expectations, anticipations, and need for fulfilment of desires. The texts I have selected for this chapter structure desire in different ways by casting it as the driving motivation behind the characters’ quests for independence, adventure, sexual freedom, love and romance.
