 | A Queer History of Adolescence : Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures / A Queer History of Adolescence 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. GABRIELLE 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 Nineteenth Century Studies , Children's Literature Association Quarterly , Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture , and Transgender Studies Quarterly . |
