The queer matter[s] of boys in dresses: boy-dress entanglements in children’s picturebooks and the materiality of gender

This study collects the representations of boys in dresses in Spanish and English language picturebooks and works through the entangled matters not only of, boys and dresses, but also race, class, gender, gender expression, schooling, and their futurities. Building from queer theory, and new materialisms, this research proposes an orientation for understanding children’s queerness without imposing ‘adult’ readings through a methodology of reading queer matter[s] by looking into picturebooks individually and across titles.