The queer child, or growing sideways in the twentieth century
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The queer child, or growing sideways in the twentieth century
（Series Q）
Duke University Press, 2009
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-285) and index
Contents of Works
- Growing sideways, or why children appear to get queerer in the Twentieth century
- The smart child is the masochistic child : pedagogy, pedophilia, and the pleasures of harm
- Why the (lesbian) child requires an interval of animal : the family dog as a time machine
- What drives the sexual child? : the mysterious motions of children's motives
- Feeling like killing? : murderous motives of the queer child
- Oedipus raced, or the child queered by color : birthing "your" parents via intrusions
- Money is the child's queer ride : sexing and racing around the future
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal "gayness," in the twentieth century. Estranging, broadening, darkening forms of children emerge as this book illuminates the child queered by innocence, the child queered by color, the child queered by Freud, the child queered by money, and the grown homosexual metaphorically seen as a child (or as an animal), alongside the gay child. What might the notion of a "gay" child do to conceptions of the child? How might it outline the pain, closets, emotional labors, sexual motives, and sideways movements that attend all children, however we deny it?Engaging and challenging the work of sociologists, legal theorists, and historians, Stockton coins the term "growing sideways" to describe ways of growing that defy the usual sense of growing "up" in a linear trajectory toward full stature, marriage, reproduction, and the relinquishing of childish ways. Growing sideways is a mode of irregular growth involving odd lingerings, wayward paths, and fertile delays. Contending that children's queerness is rendered and explored best in fictional forms, including literature, film, and television, Stockton offers dazzling readings of works ranging from novels by Henry James, Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Vladimir Nabokov to the movies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Hanging Garden, Heavenly Creatures, Hoop Dreams, and the 2005 remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The result is a fascinating look at children's masochism, their interactions with pedophiles and animals, their unfathomable, hazy motives (leading them at times into sex, seduction, delinquency, and murder), their interracial appetites, and their love of consumption and destruction through the alluring economy of candy.
Table of Contents
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
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