Contesting binarisms in Harry Potter : creative rejigging, or gender tokenism? Devlin-Glass, Frances 2005, Contesting binarisms in Harry Potter : creative rejigging, or gender tokenism?, English in Australia, vol. 144, Summer, pp. 50-63. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads devlin-glass-contestingbinarisms-2005.pdf Published version application/pdf 1.28MB 856 Title Contesting binarisms in Harry Potter : creative rejigging, or gender tokenism? Author(s) Devlin-Glass, Frances orcid.org/0000-0002-5395-185X Journal name English in Australia Volume number 144 Season Summer Start page 50 End page 63 Publisher Heinemann Educational on behalf of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Publication date 2005 ISSN 0155-2147 Keyword(s) English (second language) gender bias gender equity gender stereotypes novels stereotypes Summary This paper arises out of curiosity inspired by four Japanese women students' consumption in English of the entire Harry Potter series (five increasingly lengthy books) in 2003, and it asks whether the six novels are regressive or creative on gender grounds. In a series which pivots around binaries and rarely complicates them, does gender come in for the same treatment? In updating the schoolboy/schoolgirl and action/magic genres and locating them in a co-ed setting, does the author of Harry Potter write as a woman or does she cling to regressive gender scripts? Language eng Field of Research 200503 British and Irish Literature HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner. Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30003395 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 29 Oct 2008, 13:48:58 EST Mon, 27 Apr 2009, 11:14:52 EST Thu, 14 May 2009, 10:42:32 EST Mon, 03 May 2010, 14:29:17 EST Tue, 18 May 2010, 08:39:34 EST Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 14:19:03 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 23:22:35 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 09:12:27 EST Mon, 04 Dec 2017, 13:35:25 EST Mon, 22 Jan 2018, 13:51:44 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 17:58:53 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1140 Abstract Views, 856 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 08:51:56 EST