Contents
Acknowledgments
Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children
Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley
Part I. Sexing the Child
Producing Erotic Children
James R. Kincaid
The Pedophilia of Everyday Life
Richard D. Mohr
"The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes": Pederasty, Domesticity and Capitalism in Horatio Alger
Michael Moon
Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material)
Lauren Berlant
Narrating the Child's Queerness 
Kevin Ohi
Knowing Children: Desire and Interpretation in The Exorcist
Ellis Hanson
Part II. The Queers We Might Have Been
How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
How to Do Things with Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the "Child in Danger"
Paul Kelleher
"No Trespassing": Girl Scout Camp and the Limits of the Counterpublic Sphere
Kathryn R. Kent
Oh Bondage Up Yours! Female Masculinity and the Tomboy
Judith Halberstam
Tongues Untied: Memoirs of a Pentacostal Boyhood
Michael Warner
A Postmodern Utopia of Childhood Sexuality: The Fiction of Guy Davenport
André Furlani
Theory a tergo in The Turn of the Screw
Eric Savoy
Growing Sideways, or Versions of the Queer Child: The Ghost, the Homosexual, the Freudian, the Innocent, and the Interval of Animal
Kathryn Bond Stockton
Contributors
Publication History
Index




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Children and sex, Homosexuality, Children in literature, Children in popular culture, Sex in popular culture