Reading Power: Female Sexuality, Bullying, And Power Relations In Young Adult Literature, Cara C. Crandall

Doctoral Dissertations

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READING POWER: FEMALE SEXUALITY, BULLYING AND POWER RELATIONS IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

CARA CRANDALL, B.S., MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

M.F.A., EMERSON COLLEGE Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Denise K. Ives Over the last thirty years, American society and schools have struggled to understand and respond to bullying and harassment by young people. In that time, scholars and policy makers have worked not only to understand this phenomenon but to also create interventions that can prevent such incidents because the consequences of bullying have been shown to be so detrimental for all involved. Adult concerns with peer …

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