The Queer Child: Or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century

By: Stockton, Kathryn Bond

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082234386X
• ISBN13: 9780822343868
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.3"