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020			_a9781978803992
082			_a305.23 _bDYE
100			_aDyer, Hannah
245			_aQueer aesthetics of childhood : asymmetries of innocence and the cultural politics of child development
260			_bRutgers University Press, _c2020 _aNew Brunswick :
300			_a155 p.; _bill., (b & w), _c21 cm
365			_b28.95 _cUSD _d85.90
490			_aRutgers series in childhood studies
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aAesthetics
650			_aQueer theory
650			_a Feminist Theory
650			_aGay Studies
650			_aBoyhood
650			_aChildhood innocence
650			_aChildren's art
650			_aEmotion
650			_aFantasy
650			_aGaza
650			_aInfant
650			_a Memory
650			_aRacism
650			_aTrans dhildhood
650			_aWar
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