Queer childhoods : institutional futures of indigeneity, race, and disability / Mary Zaborskis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaborskis, Mary, author.

Series:

Sexual Cultures Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of minorities--Institutional care.

Children of minorities.

Gay youth.

Queer theory.

Sexual minorities--Identity.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minority youth--Institutional care.

Sexual minority youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Explores how the institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s future social, political, and economic opportunities Tracing 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. Zaborskis argues that these boarding schools—designed to segregate racialized, criminalized, and disabled children from mainstream culture—produced new forms of childhood. These childhoods have secured American futures in which institutionalized children (and the adults they become) have not been considered full-fledged citizens or participants. By locating this queerness in state archives and institutions, Queer Childhoods exposes a queer social history entangled with genocide, eugenics, and racialized violence."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: Institutionalizing children, queering childhoods

1. False promises of heterosexualization

2. Reforming sexuality, displacing home

3. Compulsory sterilization

4. Cleansing and contaminating Sexuality

5. Sexual orphanings

Epilogue: What's my damage? On attachments to queer theory

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on April, 2, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Zaborskis, Mary Queer Childhoods

ISBN:

9781479813919 (electronic book)

1479813915

OCLC:

1411309966