{"product_id":"queer-childhoods-9781479813872","title":"Queer Childhoods","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores how the institutional management of children's sexualities in boarding schools affected children's future social, political, and economic opportunities \u003cbr\u003eTracing 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. \u003cbr\u003eZaborskis argues that these boarding schoolsdesigned to segregate racialized, criminalized, and disabled children from mainstream cultureproduced new forms of childhood. These childhoods have secured American futures in which in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fierce and brilliant book. Mary Zaborskis argues that the U.S. and Canadian states queered\u003cbr\u003e minoritarian populations in order to unfit them for full citizenship. Deep in the archives of\u003cbr\u003e industrial schools, Native American boarding schools, and schools for the blind, Zaborskis\u003cbr\u003e demonstrates that these institutions targeted the sexuality of Black, Native, poor, and disabled\u003cbr\u003e students, preparing them for futures that would never come to pass. By attending to the\u003cbr\u003e experiences of actual children caught up in this biopolitical project, \u003ci\u003eQueer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChildhoods \u003c\/i\u003echallenges pieties about education, the Child, and a queer future untroubled by these\u003cbr\u003e violent legacies of exclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmart and provocative. Mary Zaborskis grapples with a history emergent in queer theory. How\u003cbr\u003e did specific institutions queer children against their will, for almost two centuries? That is, how\u003cbr\u003e were children from minoritized backgrounds ‘sexually othered’—made ‘strange,’ thus queer—so\u003cbr\u003e that they could be forced into normalizing scenes that guaranteed their failure to assimilate to\u003cbr\u003e norms? Here, the act of ‘queering’ is not to be embraced. It’s a barbed dynamic that aims to\u003cbr\u003e manage lives and threaten certain futures. What a rending read—riveting and necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578087870807,"sku":"9781479813872","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479813872.jpg?v=1746097851","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/queer-childhoods-9781479813872","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}