{"id":562,"date":"2022-07-01T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/?p=562"},"modified":"2024-06-11T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:36:53","slug":"blush-2021-bending-the-elementary-queering-gender-and-sexuality-in-avatar-the-last-airbender-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/blush-2021-bending-the-elementary-queering-gender-and-sexuality-in-avatar-the-last-airbender-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Blush (2021) Bending the Elementary: Queering Gender and Sexuality in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Looks at the role of television in constructing gender for children and reinforcing traditional gender roles, especially Judith Butler\u2019s \u201cheterosexual matrix\u201d, with lexical analysis of how characters do and don\u2019t escape it. Investigates the ways in which Avatar: the Last Airbender (2005-2008) either upholds or subverts the dichotomies of gender and sexuality, by analyzing the representations of multiple female and male characters, mostly pragmatically but with some semantic analysis. Discusses 90s\/2000s post-feminism and \u201cgirl power\u201d in children\u2019s media aimed at girls. Also highlights the queering of gendered tropes such as \u201cthe Madonna\u201d and the nice girl. Critiques interactions between representations of gender, disability, female villains and desirability. This thesis would be useful for those interested in representations of young women\/girls in television, as well as the impact of third wave feminism and post feminism on children\u2019s television.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">Blush, S. (2021). <i>Bending the Elementary: Queering Gender and Sexuality in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Beyond<\/i> (B.A., Vassar College). Vassar College, New York. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalwindow.vassar.edu\/senior_capstone\/1090\">https:\/\/digitalwindow.vassar.edu\/senior_capstone\/1090<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks at the role of television in constructing gender for children and reinforcing traditional gender roles, especially Judith Butler\u2019s \u201cheterosexual matrix\u201d, with lexical analysis of how characters do and don\u2019t escape it. Investigates the ways in which Avatar: the Last Airbender (2005-2008) either upholds or subverts the dichotomies of gender and sexuality, by analyzing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/blush-2021-bending-the-elementary-queering-gender-and-sexuality-in-avatar-the-last-airbender-and-beyond\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blush (2021) Bending the Elementary: Queering Gender and Sexuality in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Beyond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1840,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[17,18,69,70,201,39,57],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblio","category-thesis-dissertation","tag-animated-tv-shows","tag-avatar-the-last-airbender","tag-constructions-of-femininity","tag-constructions-of-masculinity","tag-nickelodeon","tag-stereotypical-feminine-language","tag-subversion-of-gender-norms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}