Description
Rich in intersectional analysis, this book offers a multifaceted and historicized theory for categories of age that challenges existing methodologies for studying the people called children and adolescents. Rather than offering critique as an end in and of itself, A Queer History of Adolescence imagines the world-making possibilities that critique enables and, in so doing, shines a necessary light on the question of relationality in the lived world. Owen exposes the profound presence of history in our current moment in order to transform the habits of mind shaping age relations, social hierarchy, and the politics of identity today.
About the Author
GABRIELLE OWEN is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on children's and young adult literature, histories of childhood and adolescence, queer theory, transgender studies, and ethics. She has published in Nineteenth Century Studies, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, and Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Book Information
ISBN 9780820357461
Author Gabrielle Owen
Format Paperback
Page Count 266
Imprint University of Georgia Press
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Weight(grams) 380g