| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Theorizing from the Outskirts Enhances Sociology -- Part I. Place -- 1. Florida as Postmodern Moment: Skirting the Urban/Rural Binary and Queering Generalizability -- 2. Going to the Country: LGBTQ Rural Research as Queer Anti-Urbanism and Coalition -- 3. Outposts: Centering Lone Gay Bars of the American Interior -- 4. Festival Krewes: Rethinking the Southern Urban Queer Experience -- Part II. Space -- 5. Tumblr as "Heaven," Tumblr as "Hell": How Platform Architecture Informs Identity Challenge for Trans and Non-Binary Tumblr Users -- 6. "I'm Just Not Interested in a Bathhouse . . .": Korean Spas as Queer Liminal Spaces -- Part III. Dislocating Spaces and Places -- 7. Expecting versus Experiencing: Queer Black College Students and Discrimination at Black and White Universities -- 8. Bad Queers: The Institutional Production of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness -- 9. Sex on the Streets and in the Margins: Homelessness, Sexual Citizenship, and Justice -- Part IV. Identities and Relationships -- 10. "You're Human First": On Racial and Sexual Identity Prioritization -- 11. Platonic Couples and the Limits of Queer Theory: The Case of Black Masculinity in Hip-Hop Culture -- 12. What Does Asexuality Offer Sociology? Insights from the Asexual Community Survey -- Part V. Centering the Disciplinary Outskirts -- 13. "All the Way in the Back of the Room": Being/Studying Bisexual(ity) in Sociology -- 14. Queer Students, Queer Hookups, Queer Cultures: The Potential for Critical Contributions to Theories of Sexuality -- 15. Truth Regimes, the Charmed Circle, and Multi-Institutional Politics: A Theory of Sexualities and Social Change |
| Summary |
"Outskirts is an edited volume from sociology scholars that addresses the complexity of the queer experience in diverse spaces, places, and identities in the United States"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2024) |
| Subject |
Gay people -- United States -- Social conditions
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Sexual minorities -- United States -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies.
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LGBTQ+ people.
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LGBTQ+ social processes.
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Society & culture: general.
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Family and Relationships.
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LGBTQ+ Interest.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Compton, D'Lane R. (D'Lane Rebecca), 1977- editor.
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Stone, Amy L., editor.
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| LC no. |
2023030013 |
| ISBN |
9781479821532 |
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1479821535 |
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9781479821549 |
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1479821543 |
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