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Direct linkColantonio-Yurko, Kathleen; Boehm, Shelby; Olmstead, Kathleen – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2022
In this manuscript, the authors examine three young adult novels using critical literacy as a lens for addressing issues of power and justice around sexual violence and the actions taken by characters to make social change in their fictional schooling contexts. This piece uses scholarship around youth activism in young adult literature to engage…
Descriptors: Females, Activism, Adolescent Literature, Critical Literacy
Peer reviewedO'Quinn, Elaine J. – ALAN Review, 2001
Describes how Laurie Halse Anderson's insightful novel, "Speak" (1999), reminds readers of the distance women have come in identifying the "oppressive and unhealthy behavior of the silences that so often betray them." Concludes that the oppression of silence which generations of women have stoically accepted is now being…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Females, Feminism, Literary Criticism
