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is a lot of good analysis in here which is very useful to me as I am also conducting research on virginity in YA.
However, I was disappointed by the recommendation of books like Forever and Anatomy of a Boyfriend as being sex positive.
Surely we can do better than that Shouldn't the bare minimum of a sexpositive novel be two characters who actually.
. . communicate I also thought the author didn't do enough debunking of the whole hymen myth, There are multiple references to the idea that the hymen breaks after first intercourse, This is simply not true and very curious coming from someone who is studying depictions of virginity.
In short, i like Seifert's work and her writing but I wish feminist scholars on these issues were less tolerant and eager to praise any book that's throws even a crumb of tolerable sex our way.
Aroundsomething surprising happened in young adult literature: YA books became obsessed with presenting characters who wanted to have sex but couldn t at least not without

losing something vital to their identity.
Since the publication of Twilight, the YA market has been flooded with books that feature naive virgins finding true love.
While some YA novels do present nuanced depictions of sex and of healthy sexual relationships, the fiction most popular with young adult readers presents adolescent girls as virginal sex objects waiting to be fulfilled by their love interests.
In Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight, Christine Seifert looks at an alarming trend in YA novels.
Labeling this phenomenon abstinence porn, Seifert argues that these novels that fetishize virginity are harmful to readers.
Like pornography, such works reduce female characters to objects whose sexual acts are the sole expression of their identities.
Chapters in this book examine paranormal, dystopian, and contemporary romance, paying particular attention to recurring virginity themes or tropes.
The book also provides an antidote by showing how some sexpositive teen novels provide more empowering messages to readers.
Organized by genre, the books were selected for this study based on their popularity with teens, Exploring how messages about virginity are sustained and repeated from text to text, this book also calls out key reader reactions to demonstrate how they are responding to these messages.
Featuring a list of discussion questions, Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight will be a valuable resource for teachers, librarians, parents, and mature young adult readers.
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I am a native North Dakotan, a professor at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, and author of some books: Factory Girls YA nonfiction,Zest Whoppers: History's Most Outrageous Lies and Liars YA nonfiction,, Zest Virginity in Young Adult Literature After Twilight nonfiction/scholarship,, Scarecrow and The Predicteds YA fiction,Sourcebooks Fire.
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