Light, Love and Desire

The New Wave of Finnish Girls' Literature

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12975282
AutoresMyry Voipio (autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen6
Número2
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGirlhood Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/ghs.2013.060209
OpenAlexW2332113807
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas17

This article examines four works of contemporary Finnish girls' literature. The main focus is on the analysis of various aspects of sexuality represented in the novels in relation to these two questions: How do they depict adolescent female sexuality in comparison to the generic conventions and the history of girls' literature? Do the representations expand, change, preserve and/or challenge the genre? The noticeable change is that the desire and love depicted in contemporary Finnish girls' literature can be lesbian and bisexual. However, although these representations of sexuality challenge some generic limits, the genre characteristics of girls' literature seem to have remained relatively unchanged

Focus (optics · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Relation (database · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis