The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century

308 Pages·2009·8.52 MB·English

by  Kathryn Bond Stockton

The Queer Child,
or
GrowinG
SidewayS
in The
TwenTieTh
CenTury
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The Queer Child,
or
GrowinG
SidewayS
in The
TwenTieTh
CenTury
Kathryn Bond Stockton
duKe univerSiTy PreSS
Durham and London 2009
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Frontispiece: detail of a photograph
by Sean Graff, © Sean Graff Photography.
For Marilyn, Ed, and Dave
ConTenTS ParT 1
SidewayS relaTionS
“Pedophiles” and Animals
Acknowledgments 1.
pg. ix The Smart Child Is
the Masochistic Child
introduction Pedagogy, Pedophilia,
Growing Sideways, and the Pleasures of Harm
or Why Children Appear pg. 61
to Get Queerer in the
Twentieth Century 2.
pg. 1 Why the (Lesbian) Child
Requires an Interval of Animal
The Family Dog as a Time
Machine
pg. 89
ParT 2 ParT 3
SidewayS MoTionS SidewayS fuTureS
Sexual Motives, Criminal Motives Color and Money
3. 5.
What Drives the Sexual Child? Oedipus Raced, or the
The Mysterious Motions of Child Queered by Color
Children’s Motives Birthing “Your” Parents
pg. 119 via Intrusions
pg. 183
4.
Feeling Like Killing? conclusion
Murderous Motives of Money Is the Child’s Queer Ride
the Queer Child Sexing and Racing around the Future
pg. 155 pg. 219
Notes
pg. 245
Bibliography
pg. 275
Index
pg. 287
aCKnowledGMenTS
Gratitude grows as I think of people who have schooled me on these topics:
Henry Abelove, Stephen Barber, Lauren Berlant, Scott Black, Steven Bruhm,
Debra Burrington, Melanee Cherry, Beth Clement, William Cohen, Peter
Coviello, Stuart Culver, Ann Cvetkovich, Chris Decaria, Nadja Durbach, Lee
Edelman, Angie Elegante and Natalie Avery, Karen Engle, Martha Ertman,
Kathryn Flannery, Beth Freeman, Jane Garrity, Jake Grace, J. Halberstam,
Randall Halle, Ellis Hanson, Jonathan Gil Harris, Becky Horn, Natasha Hur-
ley, Karen Jacobs, Annamarie Jagose, Ratna Kapur, David Kennedy, Mari-
lee Lindemann, Joe Litvak, Dana Luciano, Heather Lukes, Stacey Margolis,
Ellen McCallum, Molly McGarry, Tom McWhorter, Madhavi Menon, José
Muñoz, Mary Ann O’Farrell, Stephanie Pace, Ann Pellegrini, Ellen Pollak,
Masha Raskolnikov, Todd Reeser, Jocelyn Romano, Stella Rozanski, Martha
Nell Smith, and especially Barry Weller, who gave such kind and careful help
in this book’s final stages. And a shout goes out to my intellectual comrades
in the canyons—Laura Briggs and Lisa Duggan—for their love of ledges and
talking while walking.
I have felt tremendously supported in Utah: by my department and its
chairs, Stuart Culver and Vincent Pecora; by my dean, Robert Newman;
by Associate Vice-President for Diversity Karen Dace, and now her succes-
sor, Octavio Villalpando; and especially by my students, both graduate and
undergraduate, in a range of literature and theory courses, particularly those
in “Queer Theory,” “Canonical Perversions,” and “The Semiotics of Race.”
The Gender Studies Program has been my second home, both intellectual
and political, and warmest, deepest thanks are owed to my associate director
Gerda Saunders, whose intellect, modesty, and kindness humble me, and