ISBN:
0814731929
,
0814731937
,
9780814731925
,
9780814731932
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 279 p)
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Intersections : transdisciplinary perspectives on genders and sexualities
Parallel Title:
Print version Out in the Country : Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
DDC:
306.76/608350973091734
Keywords:
Gay youth
;
Rural population
;
Gay youth ; Kentucky
;
Rural population ; Kentucky
;
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Abstract:
Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative Inquiry Book Award Honorable Mention From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker's Clubs, Out in the Country offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today's rural queer youth. Mary L. Gray maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and alon
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Never Met a Stranger; 1 Introduction: There Are No Queers Here; Part I: Queers Here? Recognizing the Familiar Stranger; 2 Unexpected Activists: Homemakers Club and Gay Teens at the Local Library; 3 School Fight! Local Struggles over National Advocacy Strategies; 4 From Wal-Mart to Websites: Out in Public; Part II: Queering Realness; 5 Online Profiles: Remediating the Coming-Out Story; 6 To Be Real: Transidentification on the Discovery Channel; 7 Conclusion: Visibility Out in the Country; Epilogue: You Got to Fight for Your Right . . . to Marry?
Description / Table of Contents:
Appendix: Methods, Ad-hoc Ethics, and the Politics of Sexuality StudiesNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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