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How School Librarians Use Social Media to Stay On Top of Issues and Trends As Digital Leaders

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How School Librarians Use Social Media to Stay On Top of Issues and Trends As Digital Leaders

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This Knowledge Quest article explains why and how librarians can stay up to date on current social media trends, such as trends in literature.

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The Boston Globe:Hockey Romance 101 Yes, hockey romance novels exist. In fact, they're huge

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The Boston Globe:Hockey Romance 101 Yes, hockey romance novels exist. In fact, they're huge

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This newspaper article explains why hockey specifically lends itself well to the romance genre.

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Jack Edwards:  Booktok Hockey Video Essay

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Jack Edwards:  Booktok Hockey Video Essay

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Although this is not a scholarly source, ice hockey romance is overtaking tiktok so most of the discussions on this topic live on social media, not scholarly articles. This video essay was remarkably informative and well-researched in it's own right.

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booktok hockey smut: what the puck is going on

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Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction

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Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction

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This article is remarkably detailed. Although it is about sports romance broadly, much of what is discussed explains why hockey is specifically appealing to young, female readers.

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posted on 2023-12-19, 05:05 authored by Alexandra Hazel Mulvey

Romance fiction is a billion-dollar industry, and a genre that explores the intricacies of sex and gender because of its focus on human beings and their relationships. Within this genre, the sports romance - a subgenre which emerged in the twenty-first century - is particularly fascinating but problematic in its consideration of sex and gender due to the gendered nature of sport itself. Despite its popularity, there has been very little academic research into sports romance, so this creative thesis is an interdisciplinary study positioned at a junction between popular romance theory, and sport and sociology, drawing on the academic work of scholars such as Pamela Regis, Catherine Roach, Jayashree Kamblé and Eric Anderson. By employing qualitative research methodology involving the close reading of three mainstream sports romances and three queer sports romances, this creative thesis analyses which gendered stereotypes are repeatedly deployed in mainstream sports romance novels, and how and to what effect these stereotypes are challenged in queer sports romance novels. I have approached this creative thesis from a dual perspective, as both a queer athlete and an author of sports romance fiction. My research has aided me in developing my romance writing in order to produce sports romances that are more innovative and nuanced in their consideration of sex and gender. This creative thesis includes an exegesis and a selection of original chapters of my own queer sports romance novel, provisionally titled Ready to Roll.

History

Table of Contents

Thesis introduction -- Part 1 - exegesis -- Part 2 - creative component -- Thesis conclusion -- Appendix 1 - Ready to Roll (first 15,000 words) -- Works cited

Awarding Institution

Macquarie University

Department, Centre or School

Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Languages and Literature

Principal Supervisor

Hsu-Ming Teo

Additional Supervisor 1

Stephanie Russo

Rights

Copyright: The Author Copyright disclaimer: https://www.mq.edu.au/copyright-disclaimer

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AMIS ID: 289299

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Gender and sex stereotypes in sports romance fiction

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Romance fiction is a billion-dollar industry, and a genre that explores the intricacies of sex and gender because of its focus on human beings and their relationships. Within this genre, the sports romance - a subgenre which emerged in the twenty-first century - is particularly fascinating but problematic in its consideration of sex and gender due to the gendered nature of sport itself.

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A school librarian reccomends YA suggestions for students looking for Ice Breaker, the premier hockey romance.

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Sports romance suggestions for teens not quite ready for Icebreaker. And these are mostly hockey/skating! #librariansoftiktok #booktok #Inverted 

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Sports romance suggestions for teens not quite ready for Icebreaker. And these are mostly hockey/skating! #librariansoftiktok #booktok #Inverted
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Social reading cultures on Booktube, Bookstagram, and Booktok (Ebook)

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Social reading cultures on Booktube, Bookstagram, and Booktok (Ebook)

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This book offers great insight into how Booktok effects readers so much. It creates a sense of community, specifically in the more niche reading communities such as hockey romance readers.

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Social reading cultures on Booktube, Bookstagram, and Booktok | Longwood University

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WorldCat Discovery helps people navigate their research journeys to find and get resources from Longwood University and libraries worldwide.

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Establishing a community of readers in a secondary school library

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Establishing a community of readers in a secondary school library

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This article explains how and why we should foster recreational reading in our secondary schools.

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WorldCat Discovery helps people navigate their research journeys to find and get resources from Longwood University and libraries worldwide.

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This creator's style of TikTok is incredibly popular in the BookTok community, specifically for ice hockey romances. It's a good primary source to pair with the other resources listed here.

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On Common Ground. What Does Social and Emotional Learning Look Like in Your Library?

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On Common Ground. What Does Social and Emotional Learning Look Like in Your Library?

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This article from School Library Connection discusses some ways to connect your programming with SEL. The article mentions having book clubs to help students work through complicated feelings. an Ice Hockey Romance book club could help establish community for learners as they grapple with healthy and unhealthy relationships.

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All of the tropes from Ice Breaker- Golden Retriever and he falls first- without the spice. Similar even down to the cover.

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Rival Darling: A Young Adult Hockey Romance (The Darlin...

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Read 249 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. She's got one rule: never date a jock. He'll do whatever it takes to break it. When seven...