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1 online resource (260 pages) |
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Sexual Cultures |
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Sexual cultures.
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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: I Hate New York; Urban Legends; From Non-Metro to Anti-Urbanism; City Subversions, Rural Stylistics, Paper Cut Politics; Outsider Artifacts; 1. Autobiographies of the Ex-Urban Queer; Modernist Metronormativity; Gone-to-Kansas; Still Life with Charles Demuth; Berlin Story; Raw Deals; 2. Critical Rusticity; An Aesthetic of Anti-Urbanity; Bicoastality; Country Women; Out of the Closets, Into the Woods; RFD Country; 3. Southern Backwardness; Your Best Bubba; Alabama Souvenirs; Eastaboga/Taormina; Caravaggio's Rednecks |
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4. UnfashionabilitySteel Boots of Leather; Style-less; "Enemy Clothing"; Outdated; 5. Queer Infrastructure; Pittsburgh to the East, Philadelphia to the West; Roads to Nowhere; If Only; Alt-Routes; Coda: On the Borderlands of the Midwest; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author; A color insert |
| Summary |
The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, Scott Herring draws a new map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplines--art, media, literature, performance, and fashion studies--he develops an extended critique of how metronormativity saturates LGBTQ politics, artwork, and criticism. To counter this ideal, he offers a vibrant theory of queer anti-urbanism that refuses to dismiss the rural as a cultural backwater. Impassioned and pr |
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America |
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Asking |
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Herring |
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Interweaving |
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LGBTQ |
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Scott |
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art |
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artwork |
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been |
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beyond |
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cities |
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coasts |
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criticism |
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critique |
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cultures |
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develops |
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disciplines |
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draws |
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exclusive |
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extended |
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fashion |
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focus |
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have |
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literature |
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look |
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map |
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media |
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metronormativity |
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metropolis |
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mindset |
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myopic |
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near |
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performance |
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politics |
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queer |
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queers |
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range |
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responded |
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rural |
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saturates |
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scholars |
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studies |
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this |
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tracking |
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wide |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Rural gay men -- United States
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Rural lesbians -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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Rural gay men
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Rural lesbians
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814790939 |
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0814790933 |
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