TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dyer,Hannah
TI  - The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood: Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development 
T2  - Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
SN  - 9781978804005
AV  - HQ767.9 .D94 2019
U1  - 305.23 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Child development
KW  - Queer theory
KW  - Sexual minorities
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Queer, childhood, innocence, child development, aesthetics, queer aesthetics, children's art, art about childhood, belonging, political value, childhood's cultural expressions, colonial history, nation building, homophobia, violence, queer theory, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, settler-colonial studies, cultural studies, theories of childhood, children's drawings, war in Gaza, childhood trauma, sex-education, aggressions against childhood, ambivalences toward child protection, transnational politics, child studies, education, youth studies, child and youth studies, arts education, post-colonial studies
N1  - restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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. Dyer suggests that childhood's cultural expressions offer insight into the persisting residues of colonial history, nation building, homophobia, and related violence. Drawing from queer and feminist theory, psychoanalysis, settler-colonial studies, and cultural studies, this book helps to explain how some theories of childhood can hurt children. Dyer's analysis moves between diverse sites and scales, including photographs and an art installation, children's drawings after experiencing war in Gaza, a novel about gay love and childhood trauma, and debates in sex-education. In the cultural formations of art, she finds new theories of childhood that attend to the knowledge, trauma, fortitude and experience that children might possess. In addressing aggressions against children, ambivalences towards child protection, and the vital contributions children make to transnational politics, she seeks new and queer theories of childhood
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978804036?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978804036
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978804036/original
ER  -