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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Adolescent Novels"”.
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Assertiveness as a Characteristic of Females in Male-Female Relationships in Selected Adolescent Novels from 1967-1976 and 1977-1986
… in male-female relationships as portrayed in adolescent novels. The hypotheses were that a more contemporary attitude toward women would be reflected in the past decade's literature for adolescents by featuring women who act more assertively in dating relationships, and that there would be a …
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Responses of four adolescent females to adolescent fiction with strong female characters
… study is an investigation of responses of four adolescent girls to the characters in two adolescent novels: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor; and Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson. The novels were chosen because the main characters are strong, independent young females, whose various …
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“Hideous things have happened here”: Rape myths, rape culture, and healing in adolescent literature
<p>Adolescent novels about rape are one way to discuss rape and rape culture with a young audience. These novels can depict and challenge aspects of rape culture, including the myths that ultimately reinforce a culture hostile to rape victims. Considering the prevalence of rape in society at large, …
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Thinking Skills in Young Adult Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Thirty Novels
… skills to students through the use of specific adolescent novels. Thirty novels were selected with an attempt at an even distribution between male and female protagonists, first and third person point of view. A large number of novels were examined to determine the presence or absence of …
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Negotiating Boyhood and Victimisation in the Adolescent Male Rape Novel
… content analysis of contemporary, realist adolescent novels depicting boys experiencing particularly rape taken from a corpus of 64 fictional, Anglophone adolescent narratives depicting the sexual abuse (including attempted abuse and rape) of boys published between 1984 and 2022. It is …