{"product_id":"the-queer-child-or-growing-sideways-in-the-twentieth-century-series-q","title":"The Queer Child  or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Series Q)","description":"\u003cp\u003eChildren are thoroughly  shockingly queer  as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child  where she examines childrens strangeness  even some childrens 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 seen as a child (or as an animal)  alongside the gay child. What might the notion of a gay child do to conceptions of the child? How might it outline the pain  closets  emotional labors  sexual motives  and sideways movements that attend all children  however we deny it? Engaging and challenging the work of sociologists  legal theorists  and historians  Stockton coins the term growing sideways to describe ways of growing that defy the usual sense of growing up in a linear trajectory toward full stature  marriage  reproduction  and the relinquishing of childish ways. Growing sideways is a mode of irregular growth involving odd lingerings  wayward paths  and fertile delays. Contending that childrens queerness is rendered and explored best in fictional forms  including literature  film  and television  Stockton offers dazzling readings of works ranging from novels by Henry James  Radclyffe Hall  Virginia Woolf  Djuna Barnes  and Vladimir Nabokov to the movies Guess Whos Coming to Dinner  The Hanging Garden  Heavenly Creatures  Hoop Dreams  and the 2005 remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The result is a fascinating look at childrens masochism  their interactions with pedophiles and animals  their unfathomable  hazy motives (leading them at times into sex  seduction  delinquency  and murder)  their interracial appetites  and their love of consumption and destruction through the alluring economy of candy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946851004469,"sku":"ByrdShop_082234386X","price":34.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780822343868.jpg?v=1769969116","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-queer-child-or-growing-sideways-in-the-twentieth-century-series-q","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}