ISBN:
9781479813896
,
9781479813872
Language:
English
Pages:
307 Seiten
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Sexual cultures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Kind
;
Jugend
;
Internat
;
LGBT
;
Queer-Theorie
;
Sexual minority youth
;
Gay youth
;
Institutional care
;
Social aspects
;
Children of minorities / Institutional care
;
Sexual minorities / Identity
;
Queer theory
Abstract:
"Explores how institutional management of children's sexualities in reform schools, schools for the blind, African American industrial schools, and Native American boarding schools impacted children's future social, political, and economic opportunities - and thus produced queer childhoods.Tracing the US's investment in disciplining minoritarian sexualities since the late nineteenth century, Mary Zaborskis focuses on a ubiquitous but understudied figure: the queer child. Queer Childhoods examines the lived and literary experiences of children who attended reform schools, schools for the blind, African American industrial schools, and Native American boarding schools. In mapping the institutional terrain of queer childhoods in educational settings of the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century, the book offers an original archive of children's sexual and embodied experiences.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite: 279-294
,
Introduction : institutionalizing children, queering childhoods -- False promises of heterosexualization -- Reforming sexuality, displacing home -- Compulsory sterilization -- Cleansing and contaminating sexuality -- Sexual orphanings -- Epilogue : what's my damage? on attachments to queer theory
