Into the Closet

Victoria Flanagan completed her doctoral dissertation about cross-dressing in children's literature in 2005 at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She has published several critical articles and in 2002 contributed a chapter to Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature and Film, edited by John Stephens (Routledge, 2002).

• Series Editor’s ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1Children’s Literature and the Cultural Discourse of Cross-dressing Chapter 2 Cross-dressing in Children’s Literature and Film: Three Models of Gender DisguiseChapter 3 Iconic Female Cross-dressing: The Problem of Gender in Children’s Retellings of the Story of Joan of Arc Chapter 4 Re-framing Masculinity: The De-stabilizing Effect of the Female Cross-dresser Chapter 5 Funny Boys: Masculinity, Misogyny and the Carnivalesque in Children’s Male Cross-dressing Literature Chapter 6 (Mis)Performing Gender Through a Lens: Cross-dressing in Children’s Cinema Chapter 7 Emerging Identities: Cross-dressing and Sexuality in Adolescent Fiction Conclusion NotesBibliography Index

"This thoughtful study nevertheless makes an important contribution to the field of gender studies by not only describing the various models, but by analyzing their different functions with much care and attention to detail." - Bookbird, Vol. 47, No. 3, July 2009