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Peer reviewedDeBlase, Gina – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2003
Discusses how three girls take up competing social messages about gendered identity in the different kinds of texts they read. Explains that it is in the complex transactions between the reader's prior lived experiences and the language of the text where meaning is shaped. Contends that when girls are encouraged to consider the actions of female…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Case Studies, Females, Gender Issues
