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Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies

Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies

Gray, Mary L.
Johnson, Colin R.
Gilley, Brian J.

Hardcover

Series: Intersections, Book 11

General SociologyGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1479830771
ISBN13: 9781479830770
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Mar 15 2016
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016

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 multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend upon urban life for meaning.

By considering rural queer life, the contributors challenge readers to explore queer experiences in ways that give greater context and texture to modern practices of identity formation. The book's focus on understudied rural spaces throws into relief the overemphasis of urban locations and structures in the current political and theoretical work on queer sexualities and genders. Queering the Countryside highlights the need to rethink notions of the closet and coming out and the characterizations of non-urban sexualities and genders as isolated and in need of outreach. Contributors focus on a range of topics--some obvious, some delightfully unexpected--from the legacy of Matthew Shepard, to how heterosexuality is reproduced at the 4-H Club, to a look at sexual encounters at a truck stop, to a queer reading of TheWizard of Oz.

A journey into an unexplored slice of life in rural America, Queering the Countryside offers a unique perspective on queer experience in the modern United States and Canada.

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