The Queerness of Childhood Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass

This book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child. Its intention is not only to interrogate the discursive work performed on, and by, the child in these fields, but also to provide a stage for examining how psychoanalysis and queer theory themselves...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fishzon, Anna (Editor), Lieber, Emma (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Subjects:
Sex
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The Queer Child and the Childish Queer
  • 2. Parenting the Atemporal Child
  • 3. Progressive Penology Meets Youthful Queerness in the Interwar United States
  • 4. First Love
  • 5. Home You Carry With You
  • 6. Our Babies, Ourselves: From Little Spirits to Wired for Love
  • 7. The Cultivation of Queer and Trans Childhood: Eugenic Logics of Genetics and Endocrine Sciences
  • 8. On Growing Up: A Cautionary Tale for Psychoanalysts
  • 9. Adults Only: Lee Edelman’s No Future and the Limits of Queer Critique
  • 10. Philosophy for Children and the Wonder Kids
  • 11. Enigmatic Signifiers and Sexuality Afterwards
  • 12. Queue Time, Animation, and the Queer Childhood of Late Socialism
  • 13. The Deer Inbetween
  • 14. Afterword