Literary identifiation processes, an opened window to literary universes of adolescents: an approach from a gender perspective

Abstract

This paper outlines the results of the investigation carried out during the academic year 2017-2018 at Medina Albaida’s High School (Saragossa). This research, designed from a gender perspective, focuses on literary identification processes among teenagers readers. The study analyses the answers given by the adolescents to the questions asked on the survey, such as Which characters do you identify much more easily with, masculine’s or feminine’s?, Which character or characters from the books you have read would you like to become? In the same way, teenage thinking and their literary universes, which show traditional stereotypes and gender roles, are presented as findings of this investigation. Meanwhile, the conclusions reached would allow us to design didactic proposals in order to prevent sexist and discriminatory behaviours and eradicate all kind of gender violence.
Key words: Children’s and Young People’s Literature, literary identification processes, gender perspective, adolescence, gender roles and stereotypes