Table of contents
List of figures
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Structures of feeling growth
Previous research on blurring age boundaries
Scope and terminology
Age
Boundaries
Structures of feeling
Research corpus
Chapter overview
Growing sideways: Queering normative ideas of growing up
The grand narrative of upwards growth
Alternative concepts of growth
Not upwards, full stop.
Irregularity
Re-evaluating age categories
Enrichment
Feeling queer in growth
(Re)Defining sideways growth
Working definition
Conclusion: Growing sideways as a way of noticing
Appearance
Passing
Nothing short of brilliant: Agency and authority
Tall orders: Feeling in between and gaining perspectives
Cross-dressing
A matter of form: Repeating and refusing performances
Casual empowerment: From wearing onesies to dressing up
Conclusion: Embracing the excluded middle
Play
Approaching play: Trends and definitions
Peformative (role) play
(Role-)Playing childhood
(Role-)Playing adulthood
Adulting
Play(fulness) as a queer way of life
Individual commitment
Play communities
Conclusion: Possibilities at play
Space
Resistance
Resisting unfriendly spaces
Release
Roaming wild spaces
Disorientating spatial practices
Conclusion: Containing resistance and release
Conclusion: Feeling growth sideways
Tracing patterns of continuity and limitation
A toolkit for further research
Keeping the kaleidoscopes turning
References
Index
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