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Cronshaw, Darren. "Beyond Divisive Categorization in Young Adult Fiction: Lessons from Divergent." International Journal of Public Theology 15, no. 3 (2021): 426–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-01530008.

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Abstract Veronica Roth’s Divergent is a young adult fiction and movie franchise that addresses issues of political power, social inequity, border control, politics of fear, gender, ethnicity, violence, surveillance, personal authenticity and mind control. It is possible a large part of the popularity of the series is its attention to these issues which young Western audiences are concerned about. The narrative makes heroes of protagonists who become activists for justice and struggle against oppressive social-political systems. What follows is a literary analysis of Divergent, evaluating its t

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Bickford, John H. "The representations of LGBTQ themes and individuals in non-fiction young adult literature." Social Studies Research and Practice 12, no. 2 (2017): 182–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-05-2017-0021.

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Purpose Social justice themes permeate the social studies, history, civics, and current events curricula. The purpose of this paper is to examine how non-fiction trade books represented lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals and issues. Design/methodology/approach Trade books published after 2000 and intended for middle grades (5-8) and high school (9-12) students were analyzed. Findings Findings included main characters’ demography, sexuality, and various ancillary elements, such as connection to LGBTQ community, interactions with non-LGBTQ individuals

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Cronshaw, Darren. "Resisting the Empire in Young Adult Fiction: Lessons from Hunger Games." International Journal of Public Theology 13, no. 2 (2019): 119–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341568.

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AbstractHunger Games are young adult fiction and movie franchises, which address issues of Empire, border control, politics of fear, human rights, gender, ethnicity, refugees and global inequity. The narrative of Hunger Games echoes the dilemmas of balancing personal sovereignty and self-fulfillment with the struggle that goes on for advocacy for social and political change. They make heroes of protagonists who rebel against the status quo and make a stand for justice in oppressive social-political contexts. The basic plot is ancient, but it is striking a chord with a generation of westerners

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Shuo, Yang, and Manimangai Mani. "Embracing Enablement: Impairment, Community and Disability Identity in Young Adult Fiction." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 14, no. 5 (2024): 1393–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1405.11.

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Many authors in recent years have worked to encourage the inclusion of disabled people and to show disability characters in a positive light. In order to accomplish this, they tend to produce counter-disability characters and scenarios to promote enablement. This textual analysis focuses on three young adult fictions that provide positive portrayals of protagonists with disability, including Out of My Mind (Draper, 2010), Five Flavors of Dumb (John, 2010) and Jerk, California (Friesen, 2008). Drawing on the social identity theory and the social model, this paper explores how the protagonists'

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Altrows, Aiyana. "Silence and the Regulation of Feminist Anger in Young Adult Rape Fiction." Girlhood Studies 12, no. 2 (2019): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2019.120202.

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Bringing rape stories into popular discussion was a crucial success of the Second Wave Women’s Liberation movement. Popular culture is now inundated with rape stories. However, the repetitive scripts and schemas that dominate these are often informed by neoliberal individualism that is antithetical to feminism. The contradictions that characterize the tensions between feminism and neoliberalism in these texts are typically postfeminist, combining often inconsistent feminist rhetoric with neoliberal ideology. By examining the use of the silent victim script in young adult rape fiction, in this

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Jenney, Angelique, and Deinera Exner-Cortens. "Toxic Masculinity and Mental Health in Young Women." Affilia 33, no. 3 (2018): 410–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109918762492.

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The recent release of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, which focuses on the suicide of an adolescent girl, has been accompanied by a large amount of social commentary. However, most of this commentary focuses on the suicide itself and does not consider how the series constructs the root causes of suicide. In this brief article, we argue that from a feminist social work perspective, the series highlights a key root cause of mental health problems—sexual violence—and that the discussion of this violence has been woefully absent in the commentary on the series. To support this argument, we high

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Thornton, Victoria. "Understanding the emotional impact of domestic violence on young children." Educational and Child Psychology 31, no. 1 (2014): 90–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2014.31.1.90.

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Young children who live with domestic violence represent a significantly disempowered group. Developmentally, young children have relatively limited verbal skills and emotional literacy. In addition, the context created by domestic violence frequently involves an atmosphere of secrecy and intimidation, as well as reduced emotional availability from children’s main caregivers. Taken together, these factors severely restrict these young children’s capacity and opportunities to make their voices and needs heard. This qualitative study gave children who had lived with domestic violence, the opport

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Kellett, Kathleen. "Monster Book Club." Magistra Iadertina 19, no. 2 (2025): 35–62. https://doi.org/10.15291/magistra.4724.

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Due to the limits on minors’ legal, geographic, and financial agency, many young people face difficulties directly engaging in civic activity or political activism. Researchers must therefore find creative, desire-centered ways of engaging with youth theories in a manner that is accessible to a broad number of young people. This paper explores the methodologies and theoretical findings of a six-month digital ethnographic study in which twelve American teenagers read and analyzed works of young adult speculative fiction that explore political themes through the central metaphor of monstrosity.

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Reed, Elizabeth, Jay G. Silverman, Anita Raj, et al. "Social and Environmental Contexts of Adolescent and Young Adult Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Study." American Journal of Men's Health 2, no. 3 (2008): 260–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988308318863.

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The purpose of the current study was to examine qualitatively the life contexts of young males enrolled in programs addressing perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV). Semistructured interviews were conducted with 19 males recruited from these programs. Interviews were coded to examine life contexts and analyzed using a content analysis approach. Five themes emerged across interviews: ( a) disruptive home environment; ( b) lack of positive male role models; ( c) a peer context characterized by substance use, gang involvement, and behaviors supporting the sexual maltreatment of girls; (

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López Ramírez, Manuela. "The Theme of the Shattered Self in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and A Mercy." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 48 (January 7, 2014): 75–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20138832.

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Throughout her fiction Toni Morrison has frequently dealt with traumatized individuals, who usually belong to minority groups, especially Blacks. The fragmentation of the self and the search for identity are pervasive themes of her novels. In The Bluest Eye and A Mercy Morrison explores the passage to adulthood of two deeply traumatized teenage girls. Victimized communities or those under the threat of violence, such as primeval America, discriminate and denigrate their weakest members. Thus Pecola and Sorrow are vulnerable victims of social oppression, scapegoats. In a critical stage of their

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Struthers, Karen, and Grace Williams. "Principled action by young people: R4Respect." Queensland Review 24, no. 1 (2017): 100–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2017.13.

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AbstractThere is an international movement promoting youth participation models and principles to empower more young people to be active in positive social change. To counter the prevalence of domestic violence, young people are more often targets of change rather than the instigators. Primary prevention of domestic violence is being pursued through gender-based respectful relationships education with young people. Generally, these programs are delivered using conventional adult educator models. In this study, the first year of activity of an emerging youth-led program for delivering respectfu

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Vogt, Matthew T., Yuen Pun Chow, Jenny Fernandez, Chase Grubman, and Dylan Stacey. "Designing a Reading Curriculum to Teach the Concept of Empathy to Middle Level Learners." Voices from the Middle 23, no. 4 (2016): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/vm201628571.

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Postmodern forms of young adult literature encourage readers to not only question and challenge the status quo but to implement changes to the world around them.—Realistic YA fiction works like Wonder by R.J. Palacio and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie are no exception to this phenomenon.—Both push young readers to view people with disabilities and people from unfortunate economic circumstances from empathetic rather than sympathetic perspectives.—Realistic picturebooks, specifically ones that explore concepts of disabilities and social class, also play a role

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Luboń, Arkadiusz. "Brutalne wersy. Przemiany norm gatunkowych literackiego horroru a translatorskie strategie polskich popularyzatorów poezji grozy – przypadek antologii Roberta Stillera i Leszka Lachowieckiego." Przekładaniec, no. 46 (2023): 123–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/16891864pc.23.008.17972.

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Violent Verses. Transformations of Horror Fiction and Translational Strategies of Polish Popularizers of Gothic Poetry – the Case Study of Anthologies by Robert Stiller and Leszek Lachowiecki The article discusses strategies used in translation of horror poetry in Polish anthologies of this genre in late 1980s and early 1990s when, thanks to political and social transformation, Western popculture with some of its characteristic features became available and popular in Poland. Comparative analysis of the selected translations collected in the volume Danse macabre (1993) by Leszek Lachowiecki, c

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Devendar Sandhu. "Self-fulfilling Prophecy of The Arabian Nights As Reflected in Feminist Young Adult Literature." Creative Saplings 3, no. 10 (2024): 47–59. https://doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2024.3.10.780.

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This paper analyzes the social-psychological phenomenon of Self-fulfilling Prophecy (SFP) through The Arabian Nights, and the feminist Young Adult (YA) literature. Significantly, the literature of two extreme ages and cultures provides universal messages. Application of Social- Neuroscience concept of Predictive Processing (PP) simplifies the understanding of SFP. In the troubled age of One Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade narrated strange and intriguing tales to King Shahryar. The folktales provided a unique insight towards peacefully resolving a dreadful conflict. Ignorant of the suppos

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Choplin, Olivia. "Making the Invisible Visible to Our Students: Reading Marie-Célie Agnant Within a Social-Justice-Oriented French Curriculum." Quebec Studies 79 (June 18, 2025): 131–51. https://doi.org/10.3828/qs.2025.7.

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This article examines the works of Haitian-Québécois writer Marie-Célie Agnant within the framework of a social justice-oriented French curriculum. Situating Agnant’s contributions within the evolving discourse on critical pedagogy in world language education, it highlights Agnant’s engagement with themes of power and oppression within and beyond the Haitian diaspora context, demonstrating how her texts reveal systemic injustices tied to gender, race, immigration, and linguistic identity. The analysis extends beyond Agnant’s well-studied adult novels to her young adult literature and short sto

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Armstrong, John. "Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction." Text Matters, no. 6 (November 23, 2016): 127–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2016-0008.

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In Alice Walker’s vignette “The Flowers,” a young black girl’s walk in the woods is interrupted when she treads “smack” into the skull of a lynched man. As her name predicates, Myop’s age and innocence obstruct her from seeing deeply into the full implications of the scene, while the more worldly reader is jarred and confronted with a whole history of racial violence and slavery. The skeleton, its teeth cracked and broken, is a temporal irruption, a Gothic “smack” that shatters the transience of the pastoral scene with the intrusion of a deeper past from which dead matter/material de-composes

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Jaswinder, Kaur. "Disability Activism: Emancipatory Discourse for Women." 'Journal of Research & Development' 14, no. 7 (2023): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7810176.

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Capitol Crawl’- A historical moment in the history of America whence persons with disabilities climbed the Capitol’s steps after ditching their assisted devices to get the ADA, American Disability Act, 1990 passed. Considered the largest bill ever passed anywhere in the world for the rights of persons with disabilities. This bill actually remains the model source for disability legislation around the world even now.  But the activism for the rights of the disabled started a decade before the ADA passed. For instance, disability rights organisations such as ADAPT fighting for j

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Yocheva, Kalina. "Words, Characters and Messages in the Queer Romance of Generation Z." Rhetoric and Communications, no. 61 (October 30, 2024): 89–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.55206/dibs1740.

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Abstract: This article presents an attempt to analyze the structural elements and characters that make Casey McQuiston's debut novel Red, White & Royal Blue so popular with readers, as well as the challenges posed to viewers by director Matthew Lopez and the creative team of the eponymous film, which immediately became a cultural phenomenon with many fans among viewers. The novel and its film adaptation follow the relationship between two young men from prominent families against the constraints of a heteronormative society. The article investigates a pertinent and contemporary issue from

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Hansson, Kristofer, and Charlotte C. Petersson. "Digitala plattformar för att motverka våld i nära relationer." Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift 31, no. 1 (2024): 49–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/svt.2024.31.1.4876.

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Digital platforms to counter violence in close relationships - Women’s shelters digitising their functions during the Covid-19 pandemic This study focuses on how women’s shelters in Sweden came to use digital platforms to reshape their social work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Through short telephone interviews with 14 managers of women’s shelters on several occasions during 2020 and 2021, this study highlights how their extended use of digital platforms left them with both possibilities and thresholds in their work to reach and stay in contact with abused women and children. Women’s shelters

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Nikolenko, Olha. "THE HOLOCAUST AS AN ETERNAL LESSON FOR MANKIND (Education of resistance to racism and xenophobia on the basis of contemporary foreign fiction and cinema)." Aesthetics and Ethics of Pedagogical Action, no. 18 (September 9, 2018): 84–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.33989/2226-4051.2018.18.176323.

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The theme of the Second World War and the Holocaust is one of the topical themes of contemporary fiction and cinema. Outstanding writers and directors of our time are turning to the embodiment of this tragic topic. They set themselves the task of comprehending the past and giving the third millennium generation spiritual experience that will help young people combat the manifestations of racism and xenophobia in the modern world. The article deals with the novel “Schindler’s Ark” by Th. Keneally, “The Children of Noah” by E.-E. Schmitt, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” by J. Boyne, “The Book T

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R, Bhuvaneswari, Cynthiya Rose J S, and Maria Baptist S. "Editorial: Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future." Studies in Media and Communication 11, no. 2 (2023): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v11i2.5932.

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IntroductionIndian Literature with its multiplicity of languages and the plurality of cultures dates back to 3000 years ago, comprising Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and Epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. India has a strong literary tradition in various Indian regional languages like Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and so on. Indian writers share oral tradition, indigenous experiences and reflect on the history, culture and society in regional languages as well as in English. The first Indian novel in English is Bankim Chandra Chatterje

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"Robert Heinlein's Space Cadet and the Young Adult Reader: Understanding the Real World through Narrative Transportation Approach." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 20, no. 1 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.20.1.5.

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Young Adult science fiction is a growing body of work in the science fiction genre that encourages its readers to envision, evaluate, and question contemporary and future real-world incidents. This paper explores the effect of narrative transportation on young adult readers of Robert Heinlein's Space Cadet, a YA science fiction novel. One of the main aspects narrative transportation theory examines is how literature fosters teens' understanding and awareness of themselves and of issues important to them. In this sense, Space Cadet engages the young adult reader with its narrative, its characte

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Fowles, Jib. "Television Violence and You." M/C Journal 3, no. 1 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1828.

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Introduction Television has become more and more restricted within the past few years. Rating systems and "family programming" have taken over the broadcast networks, relegating violent programming, often some of the most cutting edge work in television, to pay channels. There are very few people willing to stand up and say that viewers -- even young children -- should be able to watch whatever they want, and that viewing acts of violence can actually result in more mature, balanced adults. Jib Fowles is one of those people. His book, The Case For Television Violence, explores the long history

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Joseph, Kaela, and Ruby McCoy. "Personalised Progressive Porno." M/C Journal 27, no. 4 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3075.

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Introduction The year 2018 saw drastic shifts in fan spaces where fan works, such as art, fiction, and videos, were once widely, openly shared, including those containing sexually explicit content, a.k.a. porno. Major catalysts were the highly contested United States legislations Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which addressed the liability of host sites for content shared by users. Shortly after, similar legislation appeared around the world, including Australia’s Online Safety Act 2021. In response, Websites once popular with adolescent

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Marineau, Lea, Shadae Chambers, and Kamila A. Alexander. "Alcohol and Cannabis Use in the Context of Violence Experiences and Traditional Masculinity Attitudes Among Black Emerging Adult Men in Baltimore, Maryland." Journal of Interpersonal Violence, May 26, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605251336350.

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Cannabis and alcohol use can be coping mechanisms for young Black men who have experienced violence. Less is known about cannabis and alcohol use among men with cumulative violence experiences, including intimate partner violence (IPV). The purpose of this study was to describe alcohol and cannabis use in the context of violence experiences and traditional masculinity attitudes. Black men ages 18 to 24 ( N = 100) were recruited from community centers serving disconnected youth in Baltimore, MD. They completed cross-sectional surveys and a subsample participated in a total of three focus groups

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Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim. "Investigating the Reading Preferences of Young Female Readers of Hausa Popular Prose Fiction: A Feminist Approach." ASIAN TEFL Journal of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics 3, no. 2 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.21462/asiantefl.v3i2.55.

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Reading the story of popular romance fiction is the most powerful social activities among women in the Western countries, Europe, Asia and Africa for their leisure and enjoyment. In this study an attempt has been made to understand the reading habits and preferences of the young adult female readers of Hausa popular romance fiction, the contemporary romance fiction are popular because it deals with unimaginable relationship between men and female, the novels help them to solve some issues on courtship, ineqality, domestic violence and social change. In this study a face to face interviews was

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McDevitt, Jennifer. "Educating and Empowering Teen Activists in Public Libraries: A Case Study of the Impact of Reading on Young Adult Social Justice Actions." Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI, May 31, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cais1193.

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This participatory case study, which consisted of a co-designed virtual program through the Camrose Public Library, investigates how teen readers engage with the social justice themes in YA fiction, how and if they find these themes useful for understanding and engaging in activism on their own, and the influence of public library programming on these actions. I approached my research from a teen-centred perspective, inviting the youth who participated to make adjustments to each stage of the process. My research design, data collection, and data analysis were informed by critical ethnography

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Jacobson López, Daniel, Cristian Chandler, Darren L. Whitfield, Brian Adams, Jessica Burdick, and Mackey R. Friedman. "“Take It Out on the Floor”: Experiences of Violence Among Black LGBT House and Ball Community Youth in a Rust Belt City." Journal of Interpersonal Violence, August 25, 2022, 088626052211130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08862605221113025.

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Black, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), individuals experience higher rates of violent victimization compared to their cisgender heterosexual counterparts over their life course. Among Black LGBT people, witnessing and experiencing violence have been related to poor health outcomes, including depression, risky sexual behavior, substance use, and lower engagement in healthcare services. We engaged in research to better understand the effects of violence experienced by the Black LGBT youth community. We conducted a qualitative, phenomenological study focused on the causes of viole

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DeMello, Annalyn S., Jeff R. Temple, Liam de Vassal, et al. "Psychosocial Impacts of Non-Fatal Firearm Injuries on Youth: Findings from a Qualitative Study." INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 62 (May 2025). https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580251339075.

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Most adolescents and young adult victims of firearm violence survive, yet the mental and behavioral health outcomes associated with these incidents remain understudied. Given the potential for recurrent violence victimization and long-term psychosocial sequela after being shot, understanding the experiences of firearm injury survivors is a critical area for development. We conducted a qualitative study to explore the development of attitudes, describe psychosocial consequences, and contextualize behavioral and social outcomes among young, gunshot wounded (GSW) patients from a Level 1 trauma ce

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Pajka-West, Sharon. "Representations of Deafness and Deaf People in Young Adult Fiction." M/C Journal 13, no. 3 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.261.

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What began as a simple request for a book by one of my former students, at times, has not been so simple. The student, whom I refer to as Carla (name changed), hoped to read about characters similar to herself and her friends. As a teacher, I have often tried to hook my students on reading by presenting books with characters to which they can relate. These books can help increase their overall knowledge of the world, open their minds to multiple realities and variations of the human experience and provide scenarios in which they can live vicariously. Carla’s request was a bit more complicated

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Döring, Nicola, and Dan J. Miller. "Performer Demographics (Portrayals of Sexuality in Pornography)." DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis, October 24, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34778/5o.

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Pornography is a fictional media genre that depicts sexual fantasies and explicitly presents naked bodies and sexual activities for the purpose of sexual arousal (Williams, 1989; McKee et al., 2020). Regarding media ethics and media effects, pornography has traditionally been viewed as highly problematic. Pornographic material has been accused of portraying sexuality in unhealthy, morally questionable and often sexist ways, thereby harming performers, audiences, and society at large. In the age of the Internet, pornography has become more diverse, accessible, and widespread than ever (Döring,

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Valdez, Elizabeth Salerno, Luis Valdez, Eddie Gorry, et al. "Mind the Gaps: The Need for Inclusion of Male-Identified Voices in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health." American Journal of Men's Health 17, no. 3 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15579883231181570.

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Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) inequities are well documented for historically excluded youth (i.e., youth of color, LGBTQIA+ youth, youth with disabilities, recently im/migrated youth) living in the U.S. Northeast. However, the lived experience of male-identifying young people from historically excluded backgrounds in ASRH remains largely unexamined. The purpose of this paper is to present findings related to male-identified perspectives on social constructions of sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, and sexuality education. A research team composed of two local youth-

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Matvienko, Oksana A. "Nutrition Messages in Picture Book Fiction for 4 to 8 Year Old Children." FASEB Journal 30, S1 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.30.1_supplement.152.1.

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This study conducted a content analysis to examine the types of food and nutrition messages communicated in fictional stories aimed at children 4 to 8 years of age. The foundation of healthy eating is established at a young age. Parents play an instrumental role in the process of home‐based nutrition education. Picture books are uniquely positioned to inform young children about food, nutrition and related behaviors because they can be read multiple times and at parents’ convenience. Some reports indicate that 80 to 87 percent of parents read to their young children three or more times a week.

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Jones, Katie. "Representing young men’s experience of anorexia nervosa: a French-language case study." Medical Humanities, October 9, 2020, medhum—2020–011847. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2020-011847.

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This article analyses two young adult (YA) novels about young men’s experience of anorexia nervosa (AN), within the dual contexts of medical humanities research into literary depictions of illness, and the broader field of YA literature about AN. While emphasising the importance of diverse literary narratives in order to raise awareness of the prevalence of AN in men and boys, and to contribute to the reduction of stigma, it also considers current research into the potentially harmful triggering effects of AN literature on vulnerable readers. It identifies Anne Percin’s Point de côté (Side Sti

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Döring, Nicola, and Dan J. Miller. "Conceptual Overview (Portrayals of Sexuality in Pornography)." DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis, October 24, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34778/5k.

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Pornography is neither a documentary media genre that documents what real sex in everyday life looks like, nor is it a pedagogical or moral media genre aimed at showing what ideal sex (in terms of health or morality) should look like. Instead, pornography is a fictional media genre that depicts sexual fantasies and explicitly presents naked bodies and sexual activities for the purpose of sexual arousal (Williams, 1989; McKee et al., 2020). Regarding media ethics and media effects, pornography has traditionally been viewed as highly problematic. Pornographic material has been accused of portray

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Zharima, Campion, Elton Mboneli, Lerato Tsotetsi, et al. "“To Have a Father, Maybe I Was Going to be a Better Person”: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Effects of Biological Father Absence on Young Men in South Africa." Journal of Applied Youth Studies, May 30, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-025-00181-2.

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Abstract Biological father absence affects children’s well-being and development, with effects that can persist into adulthood due to associated factors such as economic hardship and psychological distress. In South Africa, where approximately 63% of children are not living with their biological fathers, understanding how this absence affects young people is crucial. This study explores how the absence of biological fathers impacts adolescent boys as they transition into adulthood. The sample for this study was drawn from Tsamaisano, a larger longitudinal study (2020–2023) of 498 young males,

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Manchakowsky, Shawna. "Red Queen by V. Aveyard." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 5, no. 2 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g23w3p.

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Aveyard, Victoria. Red Queen. New York: Harper Teen, 2015. Print.In a world where having red blood means you are nothing but the lowest kind of human and where having silver blood means you are a part of the God-like humans who have unique, individual powers, life is grueling when you are born with red blood. Mare Barrow has chosen a life of crime to survive and knows she will soon be conscripted to fight in the war that no red returns from, just like her older brothers. Her life changes when she gets a job at the palace and accidentally discovers she has a power too. In order to hide this imp

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Staite, Sophia. "Kamen Rider." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2834.

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2021 is the fiftieth anniversary year for Japanese live-action superhero franchise Kamen Rider. For half a century, heroes bearing the name Kamen Rider have battled rubber suited monsters and defended the smiles of children. Unlike many superheroes, however, the Kamen Riders are grotesque heroes, usually drawing their powers from the same source as the villains they battle. Grotesque human-machine-animal hybrids, they differ from their opponents only in the kindness of their hearts and the strength of their spirits. Although the Kamen Rider franchise includes a variety of texts including manga

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Makoha, Godfrey, and Myriam Denov. "War, forced displacement, and alcohol abuse: experiences and perceptions of war-affected south Sudanese refugee youth living in Bidibidi refugee settlement in northern Uganda." Frontiers in Public Health 12 (February 5, 2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1232504.

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Refugees are at high risk of alcohol abuse due to their experiences of structural, physical, sexual, and psychological violence in their countries of origin, during flight, and within host communities. Given the prolonged civil war in their country, South Sudanese have continued to flee profound forms of violence and now constitute the largest population of refugees in Uganda. However, little is known about their displacement experiences, as well as the reality of alcohol use and abuse within refugee settlements. Drawing upon the direct voices of a sample of war-affected South Sudanese young p

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Mac Eochagain, Bridget. "“Something has to change”." M/C Journal 26, no. 4 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2978.

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In April 2022, I found myself in the Harold Pinter Theatre on the West End, waiting to watch Jodie Comer star as protagonist Tessa Ensler in Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie. Surprised that after two years of on-and-off-again lockdowns due to COVID-19, I had finally made it all the way overseas to see this Australian play on the British stage, I asked the person next to me if they were excited to see the show. She was a young, twenty-something woman who smiled and said, “I can’t wait to see Jodie Comer in the flesh”. I asked what she knew about the play, and she told me a friend had given her a tick

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Thompson, Jay Daniel, and Erin Reardon. "“Mommy Killed Him”: Gender, Family, and History in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)." M/C Journal 20, no. 5 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1281.

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Introduction Nancy Thompson (Heather Langekamp) is one angry teenager. She’s just discovered that her mother Marge (Ronee Blakley) knows about Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), the strange man with the burnt flesh and the switchblade fingers who’s been killing her friends in their dreams. Marge insists that there’s nothing to worry about. “He’s dead, honey,” Marge assures her daughter, “because mommy killed him.” This now-famous line neatly encapsulates the gender politics of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). We argue that in order to fully understand how gender operates in Nightma

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Gildersleeve, Jessica. "“Weird Melancholy” and the Modern Television Outback: Rage, Shame, and Violence in Wake in Fright and Mystery Road." M/C Journal 22, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1500.

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In the middle of the nineteenth century, Marcus Clarke famously described the Australian outback as displaying a “Weird Melancholy” (qtd. in Gelder 116). The strange sights, sounds, and experiences of Australia’s rural locations made them ripe for the development of the European genre of the Gothic in a new location, a mutation which has continued over the past two centuries. But what does it mean for Australia’s Gothic landscapes to be associated with the affective qualities of the melancholy? And more particularly, how and why does this Gothic effect (and affect) appear in the most accessibl

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Döring, Nicola, and Dan J. Miller. "Violence (Portrayals of Sexuality in Pornography)." DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis, October 24, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34778/5l.

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Pornography is a fictional media genre that depicts sexual fantasies and explicitly presents naked bodies and sexual activities for the purpose of sexual arousal (Williams, 1989; McKee et al., 2020). Regarding media ethics and media effects, pornography has traditionally been viewed as highly problematic. Pornographic material has been accused of portraying sexuality in unhealthy, morally questionable and often sexist ways, thereby harming performers, audiences, and society at large. In the age of the Internet, pornography has become more diverse, accessible, and widespread than ever (Döring,

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Döring, Nicola, and Dan J. Miller. "Degradation (Portrayals of Sexuality in Pornography)." DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis, October 24, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34778/5m.

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Pornography is a fictional media genre that depicts sexual fantasies and explicitly presents naked bodies and sexual activities for the purpose of sexual arousal (Williams, 1989; McKee et al., 2020). Regarding media ethics and media effects, pornography has traditionally been viewed as highly problematic. Pornographic material has been accused of portraying sexuality in unhealthy, morally questionable and often sexist ways, thereby harming performers, audiences, and society at large. In the age of the Internet, pornography has become more diverse, accessible, and widespread than ever (Döring,

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Rose, Megan Catherine, and Patrick W. Galbraith. "Mutating Hyperfemininity in <em>Bishōjo</em>-Inspired Art." M/C Journal 28, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3168.

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Introduction “With most people, you cannot tell just from looking at them that they are fighting a silent, unseen battle”, says Sugary Symbiote, a Black, disabled, and sapphic artist in the United States. “That is what a lot of my illustrations represent. The girl is surrounded by cute things that make her happy, but she still feels alone and sad” (Sugary Symbiote). Central to her work is the bishōjo, or “cute girl”, drawn from manga, anime, and related media. While scholarship has largely treated bishōjo as objects produced for and by men (Galbraith; Galbraith and Rose), artists such as Sugar

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Hawley, Erin. "Re-imagining Horror in Children's Animated Film." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1033.

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Introduction It is very common for children’s films to adapt, rework, or otherwise re-imagine existing cultural material. Such re-imaginings are potential candidates for fidelity criticism: a mode of analysis whereby an adaptation is judged according to its degree of faithfulness to the source text. Indeed, it is interesting that while fidelity criticism is now considered outdated and problematic by adaptation theorists (see Stam; Leitch; and Whelehan) the issue of fidelity has tended to linger in the discussions that form around material adapted for children. In particular, it is often assume

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Brien, Donna Lee. "The Real Filth in American Psycho." M/C Journal 9, no. 5 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2657.

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   1991 An afternoon in late 1991 found me on a Sydney bus reading Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991). A disembarking passenger paused at my side and, as I glanced up, hissed, ‘I don’t know how you can read that filth’. As she continued to make her way to the front of the vehicle, I was as stunned as if she had struck me physically. There was real vehemence in both her words and how they were delivered, and I can still see her eyes squeezing into slits as she hesitated while curling her mouth around that final angry word: ‘filth’. Now, almost fifteen years later, the

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Pinder, Morgan. "Mouldy Matriarchs and Dangerous Daughters." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2832.

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The Resident Evil video game series is especially notable for engaging with uncanny nature and monstrous reproduction, often facilitated through viral contamination. These third-person games usually feature an outbreak of some kind, instigated by a shadowy organisation, and star a member of law enforcement or the military as the protagonist. However, the seventh and eighth games of the franchise were different. While they explored many of the same themes and conventions as their predecessors, the technologies by which they evoked fear and suspense had become further immersed in the survival ho

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Dudek, Debra, Madalena Grobbelaar, and Elizabeth Reid Boyd. "Wondering about a Love Literacy." M/C Journal 27, no. 4 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3073.

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Romancing the Fantasy: #Booklove TikTok has been credited with encouraging young readers to #booklove through its BookTok community. However, the BookTok “trend for ‘spicy’ (i.e. sexy) books has led to fears children may be reading titles with adult content” (Knight). To ascertain the tenor of the adult content in these sexy books, we analyse a popular BookTok novel known for its spicy sex scenes: A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOMAF), a novel by Sarah J. Maas, the “reigning queen of romantasy” (Grady) and “mortal queen of faerie smut” (VanArendonk). Positively, Maas’s novel includes extended erot

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Döring, Nicola, and Dan J. Miller. "Safer Sex Practices (Portrayals of Sexuality in Pornography)." DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis, October 24, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34778/5q.

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Pornography is a fictional media genre that depicts sexual fantasies and explicitly presents naked bodies and sexual activities for the purpose of sexual arousal (Williams, 1989; McKee et al., 2020). Regarding media ethics and media effects, pornography has traditionally been viewed as highly problematic. Pornographic material has been accused of portraying sexuality in unhealthy, morally questionable and often sexist ways, thereby harming performers, audiences, and society at large. In the age of the Internet, pornography has become more diverse, accessible, and widespread than ever (Döring,

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