Review: Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley, eds: Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children.

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review: 

Having put my hand up to review this book at a time when I was beginning work on a paper focusing on representations of diversity in storybooks for children of queer parents (Riggs and Augoustinos)1, it was unfortunate that I did not actually find the time to read the book until some months later. When I did eventually manage to read the book I was delighted to find many of the themes and concerns that arose from my own work directly reflected in the contents of Curiouser. All of the chapters work neatly together to provide a well-written critique of the functions served by a range of constructions of childhood within Western nations, both historically and in the present.