Orca Soundings: A critical feminist investigation

In this feature, we offer a feminist critique of Orca Book Publishers’ Orca Soundings series, a Canadian collection of short novels aimed at reluctant teen readers. Although the series is a valuable resource for this demographic, we have found some titles to be very troubling from a feminist perspec...

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Main Author: Boulos, Leah
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: YA Hotline 2015
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Orca
Online Access:https://ojs.library.dal.ca/YAHS/article/view/6368
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