{"product_id":"a-queer-history-of-adolescence-developmental-pasts-relational-futures-9780820357461","title":"A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Queer History of Adolescence\u003c\/i\u003e reveals categories of age--and adolescence, specifically--as an undeniable and essential mechanism in the production of difference itself. Drawing from a dynamic and varied archive, including British and American newspapers, medical papers and pamphlets, and adolescent and children's literature circulating on both sides of the Atlantic, Gabrielle Owen argues that adolescence has a logic, a way of thinking, that emerges over the course of the nineteenth century and that survives in various forms to this day. This logic makes the idea of adolescence possible and naturalizes our historically specific ways of conceptualizing time, development, social hierarchy, and the self. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRich 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, \u003ci\u003eA Queer History of Adolescence\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGABRIELLE 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 \u003ci\u003eNineteenth Century Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChildren's Literature Association Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQueer Studies in Media and Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTransgender Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50494151000338,"sku":"9780820357461","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_83f9f7c0-c866-4494-a44f-a0e9e8d79b38.jpg?v=1730660551","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-queer-history-of-adolescence-developmental-pasts-relational-futures-9780820357461","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}