Barbara J. Guzzetti is a Professor of English and English Education in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Affiliated Faculty with the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and the Center for Gender Equity in STEM at Arizona State University, USA.

Thomas W. Bean is a Professor of Reading/Literacy and the Rosanne Keeley Norris Endowed Chair at Old Dominion University, USA.

Judith Dunkerly-Bean is an Assistant Professor of Literacy at Old Dominion University, USA.

Section I. Gender, Sexualities, and Early Childhood Literacies 1. Navigating Gender and Social Influences on Early Literacy Development 2. Preschool-Aged Children's Gender Identity Development: Exploring Gender Through Multicultural Literature 3. Child's Play: Reading and Remaking Gendered Action Texts with Toys Section II. Gender, Sexualities, and Childhood Literacies 4. A Literacy of Resistance: Girlhood and Domestic Violence 5. Gender in the Making: Literacies and Identities in Girls' Self-Initiated Making Activities 6. Understanding How Indigenous Latinx Children Express Gender Identities Section III. Gender, Sexualities, and Adolescent Literacies Chapter 7. "Holy gendered resource, Batman!": Examining the Broader Application of Comics and Superhero Fiction Beyond Their Restrictive Relationship with Boys 8. "This Is Why We Talk About Race and Sexuality, Too": Challenging White Feminism in and Through Literacy 9. How Gender and Intersectionality Inform Adolescent Literacy 10. "Outside Voices": Justice-System Involved Adolescent Males Writing Their Identities 11. Embedding the Complexities of Gender Identity Through a Pedagogy of Refusal: Learning the Body as Literacy Alongside Youth 12. Breaking Gender Expectations: Adolescents' Critical Rewriting of a Trans Young Adult Novel 13. Defining Gender and Sexuality in LGBTQ Memoirs Section IV. Gender, Sexualities, and Adult Literacies 14. Performing and Resisting Toxic Masculinities on Sports News Comment Boards 15. Transnational Women's Online Literacies: Writing as Social Action 16. Diverse Men Making Media: Creating Cultural (Re)Constructions of Gender and Race 17. Reading Fatherhood: The Importance of Fathers in Children's Literacy Development

Offering diverse and wide-ranging perspectives on gender, sexualities, and literacies, this volume examines the intersection of these topics from preschool to adulthood. With a focus on current events, race, and the complex role of identity, this text starts with an overview of the current research on gender and sexualities in literacies and interrogates them from a range of multimodal contexts. Not restricted to any gender identity or age group, these chapters provide a much-needed and original update to the ways representations and performances of gender and sexualities through literacy practices are viewed in educational and sociocultural contexts. Scholars share their insights and transformative visions that respect and embrace difference while creating space for new and deeper understandings of contemporary issues.