Queer Aesthetics of Childhood Asymmetries of Innocence Cultural Politics of Child Development

In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. She asserts that in the aesthetics of childhood, a more just future can be conjured.
 

About the author

HANNAH DYER is an assistant professor of child and youth studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.
 

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Dyer
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.11.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research
• EAN: 9781978804005
• ISBN: 978-1-978804-00-5
• Pages: 170
• Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood St; Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subjects: Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies; ART / Criticism & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies