Queering the Countryside : : New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies /

Queering the Countryside : : New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies / / ed. by Mary L. Gray, Brian J. Gilley, Colin R. Johnson.

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016Rural 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 fou...

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MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Kelly,
Bateman, Geoffrey W.,
Brady, Mary Pat,
Cram, E.,
Crawford, Lucas,
Eaves, LaToya E.,
Gilley, Brian J.,
Gray, Mary L.,
Hain, Mark,
Henry, Robin,
Hobbs, Peter,
Howard, John,
Johnson, Colin R.,
Oler, Andy,
Powell, Ryan,
Rosenberg, Gabriel N.,
Schweighofer, Katherine,
Soderling, Stina,
Thomsen, Carly,
HerausgeberIn:
Gilley, Brian J.,
Gray, Mary L.,
Johnson, Colin R.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Intersections ; 11
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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