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Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is
often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking,
and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in
an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first
comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a
genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of
original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend
upon urban life for meaning. By considering rural queer life, the
contributors challenge readers to explore queer experiences in ways
that give greater context and texture to modern practices of
identity formation. The book's focus on understudied rural spaces
throws into relief the overemphasis of urban locations and
structures in the current political and theoretical work on queer
sexualities and genders. Queering the Countryside highlights the
need to rethink notions of "the closet" and "coming out" and the
characterizations of non-urban sexualities and genders as
"isolated" and in need of "outreach." Contributors focus on a range
of topics-some obvious, some delightfully unexpected-from the
legacy of Matthew Shepard, to how heterosexuality is reproduced at
the 4-H Club, to a look at sexual encounters at a truck stop, to a
queer reading of TheWizard of Oz. A journey into an unexplored
slice of life in rural America, Queering the Countryside offers a
unique perspective on queer experience in the modern United States
and Canada.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is
often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking,
and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in
an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first
comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a
genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of
original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend
upon urban life for meaning. By considering rural queer life, the
contributors challenge readers to explore queer experiences in ways
that give greater context and texture to modern practices of
identity formation. The book's focus on understudied rural spaces
throws into relief the overemphasis of urban locations and
structures in the current political and theoretical work on queer
sexualities and genders. Queering the Countryside highlights the
need to rethink notions of "the closet" and "coming out" and the
characterizations of non-urban sexualities and genders as
"isolated" and in need of "outreach." Contributors focus on a range
of topics-some obvious, some delightfully unexpected-from the
legacy of Matthew Shepard, to how heterosexuality is reproduced at
the 4-H Club, to a look at sexual encounters at a truck stop, to a
queer reading of TheWizard of Oz. A journey into an unexplored
slice of life in rural America, Queering the Countryside offers a
unique perspective on queer experience in the modern United States
and Canada.
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