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Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Bond Stockton Klappentext "I consider Kathryn Bond Stockton to be one of the most impressive and important queer critics in the academy today, and "The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century" only confirms that assessment. It is magnificent: the kind of book that defines the field and is returned to again and again, inspiring all sorts of thought and work for generations to come."--Michael Cobb, author of" God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence"Examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal 'gayness', in the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
