Kathryn Bond Stockton

The Queer Child

Or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the queer child, using literary, psychoanalytic, and cultural theory.

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Examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal 'gayness', in the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Series Q
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343868
• ISBN-10: 082234386X
• Artikelnr.: 26551947

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Bond Stockton

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Growing Sideways, or Why Children Appear to Get Queerer in
the Twentieth Century 1
Part I. Sideways Relations: "Pedophiles" and Animals
1. The Smart Child is the Masochistic Child: Pedagogy, Pedophilia, and the
Pleasures of Harm 61
2. Why the (Lesbian) Child Requires an Interval of Animal: The Family Dog
as a Time Machine 89
Part 2. Sideways Motions: Sexual Motives, Criminal Motives
3. What Drives the Sexual Child? The Mysterious Motions of Children's
Motives 119
4. Feeling Like Killing? Murderous Motives of the Queer Child 155
Part 3. Sideways Futures: Color and Money
5. Oedipus Raced, or the Child Queered by Color: Birthing "Your" Parents
via Intrusions 183
Conclusion: Money Is the Child's Queer Ride: Sexing and Racing around the
Future 219
Notes 245
Bibliography 275
Index 287