Harry's Girls: Harry Potter and the Discourse of Gender

Autor/in	Cherland, Meredith
Titel	Harry's Girls: Harry Potter and the Discourse of Gender
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 52 (2008) 4, S.273-282 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1081-3004
DOI	10.1598/JAAL.52.4.1
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Language Usage; Discourse Analysis; Fantasy; Novels; Childrens Literature; Gender Issues; Humanism; Fiction; Adolescents; Adolescent Literature; Feminism; Social Theories; World Views; Cultural Influences; Teaching Methods; Learning Activities; Writing (Composition) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachgebrauch; Diskursanalyse; Fantasie; Novel; Roman; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Geschlechterfrage; Humanismus; Fiktion; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Adolescents; Literature; literatur; Feminismus; Gesellschaftstheorie; World view; Weltanschauung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lernaktivität; Schreibübung
Abstract	How do we become the people we are? Humanist common sense proposes that people are born with a rational "self." But poststructural theory proposes a subjectivity formed in interaction with cultural discourses. Poststructural theory offers teachers fresh ways to teach critical literacy and thinking and provides students with ways to resist ideas about who they ought to be. The Harry Potter novels provide many illustrations of humanist discourses at work in the construction of gendered identities. Those who believe the world can be changed for the better can find hope in the idea that the story of who we take ourselves to be is never concluded. Always changing and becoming, readers (like the writers of Harry Potter fan fiction) can and do create new discourses that counter old ones. Teachers can invite teens to read and write against the grain and to create new discourses of gendered identities beyond the male/female binaries of humanism. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10