Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight

This book looks at how popular young adult literature fetishizes virginity. Christine Seifert examines how and why so much romance and dystopian fiction—the two most popular genres in YA lit—have focused on what she calls "abstinence porn"—a phenomenon that has broken out since the appearance of Twilight on the market.

Christine Seifert is an associate professor of communication at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she teaches rhetoric, strategy, and professional writing. A frequent contributor to Bitch magazine, where she writes about feminism and pop culture, Seifert is also the author of a young adult novel, The Predicteds (2011).

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: From Forever to Twilight Chapter 2: Virginity and Sex in Paranormal Novels Chapter 3: Virginity and Sex in the Dystopia Chapter 4: Virginity and Sex in Contemporary Teen Romance Chapter 5: Sex-Positive Messages in YA Literature Chapter 6: Beyond Twilight Selected Bibliography Index About the Author