Younger, Beth,  1961- <br/><br/>
Learning Curves :  Body Image and Female Sexuality in Young Adult Literature / 
Beth Younger. 
 - Lanham, Md. :  Scarecrow Press,  2009. 
 - xvii, 147 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Scarecrow studies in young adult literature ;  35 .
 - Scarecrow studies in young adult literature ;  35. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-142) and index. 
<br/><br/>Do I look fat? : body image in YA literature -- Do the right thing : pregnancy and female sexuality -- Better than ice cream : lesbian YA literature -- Girl meets boy : romance, repression, and the male predator -- Series fiction and chick lit : from Nancy Drew to Gossip girl. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780810859869 (cloth : alk. paper) 0810859866 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009009141 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Young adult fiction, American--History and criticism.<br/>Teenage girls in literature.<br/>Body image in literature.<br/>Sex (Psychology) in literature.<br/>Femininity in literature.<br/>Adolescence in literature.<br/>Teenage girls--Sexual behavior.<br/>Adolescence.<br/>Body image.<br/>Femininity.<br/>Literature.<br/>Sex (Psychology)<br/>Teenage girls.<br/>Teenage girls--Sexual behavior.<br/>Young adult fiction, American.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 374 .G55 Y68 2009