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Queering the countryside : new frontiers in rural queer studies /

Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely mult...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gray, Mary L. (Editor ), Johnson, Colin R., 1974- (Editor ), Gilley, Brian Joseph, 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : New York University Press, [2016]
Colección:Intersections (New York, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • PART I. New Archives, New Epistemologies
  • 1. Out Back Home: An Exploration of LGBT Identities and Community in Rural Nova Scotia, Canada
  • 2. Horatio Alger's Queer Frontier
  • 3. Sherwood Anderson's "Shadowy Figure": Rural Masculinity in the Modernizing Midwest
  • 4. A Classroom in the Barnyard: Reproducing Heterosexuality in Interwar American 4-H
  • PART II. The Rural Turn: Considering Cartographies of Race and Class
  • 5. The Waiting Arms of Gold Street: Manuel Muñoz's Faith Healer of Olive Avenue and the Problem of the Scaffold Imaginary
  • 6. Snorting the Powder of Life: Transgender Migration in the Land in Oz
  • 7. Outside Forces: Black Southern Sexuality
  • PART III. Back and Forth: Rural Queer Life in Circulation and Transition
  • 8. "We Are Here for You": The It Gets Better Project, Queering Rural Space, and Cultivating Queer Media Literacy
  • 9. Queer Interstates: Cultural Geography and Social Contact in Kansas City Trucking Co. and El Paso Wrecking Corp
  • 10. Epistemology of the Bunkhouse: Lusty Lumberjacks and the Sexual Pedagogy of the Woods
  • 11. Rethinking the Closet: Queer Life in Rural Geographies
  • 12. In Plain(s) Sight: Rural LGBTQ Women and the Politics of Visibility
  • PART IV. Bodies of Evidence: Methodologies and their Discontents
  • 13. (Dis)locating Queer Citizenship: Imaging Rurality in Matthew Shepard's Memory
  • 14. Queering the American Frontier: Finding Queerness and Sexual Difference in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Colorado
  • 15. Digital Oral History and the Limits of Gay Sex
  • 16. Queer Rurality and the Materiality of Time
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX