9781439909980-1439909989-Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America (Sexuality Studies)

Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America (Sexuality Studies)

ISBN-13: 9781439909980
ISBN-10: 1439909989
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Colin R. Johnson
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Temple University Press
Format: Paperback 264 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781439909980
ISBN-10: 1439909989
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Colin R. Johnson
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Temple University Press
Format: Paperback 264 pages

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Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America (Sexuality Studies) (ISBN-13: 9781439909980 and ISBN-10: 1439909989), written by authors Colin R. Johnson, was published by Temple University Press in 2013. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other State & Local (United States History, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America (Sexuality Studies) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used State & Local books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.24.

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Most studies of lesbian and gay history focus on urban environments. Yet gender and sexual diversity were anything but rare in nonmetropolitan areas in the first half of the twentieth century. Just Queer Folks explores the seldom-discussed history of same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity in rural and small-town America during a period when the now familiar concepts of heterosexuality and homosexuality were only just beginning to take shape. Eschewing the notion that identity is always the best measure of what can be known about gender and sexuality, Colin R. Johnson argues instead for a queer historicist approach. 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. 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. Colin R. Johnson is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies, History, and Human Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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