Out in the Country - Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America

List of 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: Re-mediating 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? Appendix: Methods, Ad-hoc Ethics, and the Politics of Sexuality Studies; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Summary

From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker's Clubs, this book offers a contemporary account of the lives of rural queer youth. It maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders.

Product details

• Authors: Mary L. Gray
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2009
• EAN: 9780814731925
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-3192-5
• No. of pages: 293
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Intersections; Intersections: Transdisciplina; Intersections: Transdisciplina
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research