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.
 

List of contents

Introduction: Childhood's Queer Intimacies and Affective Intensities

1 Queer Temporality in the Playroom: Ebony G. Patterson and Jonathon Hobin's Aesthetics of Child Development

2  Art and the Refusal of Empathy in A Child's View from Gaza

3 The Queer Remains of Childhood Trauma: Notes on A Little Life

4 Reparation for a Violent Boyhood in This is England

Epilogue: The Contested Design of Children's Sexuality

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781978803992
• ISBN: 978-1-978803-99-2
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research