{"product_id":"girls-transforming-sanna-lehtonen-9780786461363","title":"Girls Transforming: Invisibility and Age-Shifting in Children's Fantasy Fiction Since the 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003e This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The main focus is on English-language fantasy published since the 1970s but the motifs of invisibility and age-shifting in earlier tales and children's books is reviewed; this is the first study of children's fantasy literature that considers these tropes at length.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Novels discussed are from both critically acclaimed authors and the less well known. Most of the novels depicting invisible or age-shifting girls are neither thoroughly conventional nor radically subversive but present a range of styles. In terms of gender, children's fantasy novels can be more complex than they are often interpreted to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sanna Lehtonen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786461365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786461363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Sanna Lehtonen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483685531903,"sku":"9780786461363","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f239933d-8e2b-4220-a275-42d94e959047.jpg?v=1778039997","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/girls-transforming-sanna-lehtonen-9780786461363","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}