Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America (Sexuality Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (868 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1439909989 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pretty good. More academic than I expected Nacho Daddy Pretty good. More academic than I expected, but still good. Not so much out there when it comes to rural LGBT people, so glad I found it!
Colin R. Johnson is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies, History, and Human Biology at Indiana University Bloomington.
Via carefully prepared case study after case study, Johnson shows us how largely poor and working-class men and women lived out their queer diversity in situ, and he argues that small towns and rural communities accommodated eccentricity and often protected "their own". "Colin Johnson's pioneering book argues that the way we think about modern lesbian, gay and queer identity forms a kind of "metro-chauvinism" Just Queer Folks takes the reader on a journey through the non-metropolitan US in the first half of the 20th century, observing how heteronormalisation was imposed on the back roads of the nation by centralised state discourse and the conservative forces of capitalism. Throughout, he reviews the dominant idea of the queer so
Written with wit and verve, Just Queer Folks upsets a whole host of contemporary commonplaces, including the notion that queer history is always urban history. Johnson is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies, History, and Human Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington.. Eschewing the notion that identity is always the best measure of what can be known about gender and sexuality, Colin R. Most studies of lesbian and gay history focus on urban environments. Johnson argues instead for a queer historicist approach. Colin R. In so doing, he uncovers a startlingly unruly rural past in which small-town eccentrics, "mannish" farm women, and cross-dressing Civilian Conservation Corps enrolees were often just queer folks so far as their neighbours were concerned. Yet gend