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Introduction To Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley
Introduction To Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley
Steven Bruhm
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Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley
Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley
Steven Bruhm
Our culture has a dominant narrative about children: they are (and should stay) innocent of sexual desires and intentions. At the same time, children are officially, tacitly, assumed to be heterosexual. Curiouser is a book about this narrative and what happens when it takes an unexpected, or queer, turn—when the stories of childhood must confront a child whose play does not conform to the ideal of child (a)sexuality.
The contributors to Curiouser examine the ostensibly simple representations of children that circulate through visual images, life narrative, children’s literature, film, and novels. At issue in these essays are the stories we …