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Informationen zum Autor Colin R. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Studies, History, and Human Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington. Klappentext Uncovering the history of gender and sexual nonconformity in rural America during the first half of the twentieth century "Johnson posits that hetero-normalization was an early-20th-century phenomenon rooted in the discredited eugenics movement of its time and was a middle-class morality handed down from urban elites... [He] doggedly decodes contrasting versions of 'Big Rock Candy Mountain' that hint at gay sex, and pores over pages of the journal of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and 1940s to breathlessly report that gay people did, in fact, exist in rural areas." - Publishers Weekly Zusammenfassung Uncovering the history of gender and sexual nonconformity in rural America during the first half of the twentieth century Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection I1 Life Science: The Agrarian Origins of American Sexuality2 Town and Country: Country Life and the Nationalization of Middle-Class MoralitySection II3 Casual Sex: Homosociality, Homosexuality, and the Itinerant Working Poor4 Community Standards: Village Mentality and the Queer Eccentric5 Camp Life: The Queer History of “Manhood” in the Civilian Conservation Corps6 Hard Women: Rural Women and Female MasculinityConclusion: Mansfield, OhioNotesBibliographyIndex
