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The un-natural state : Arkansas and the queer South / Brock Thompson.
Van Pelt Library HQ76.3.U52 A885 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Brock, 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people--Arkansas--History.
- Gay people.
- Gay people--Identity.
- Gay community--Arkansas--History.
- Gay community.
- Gay culture--Arkansas--History.
- Gay culture.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- Arkansas--Social life and customs.
- Arkansas.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
- Contents:
- Powder-puff
- Drag and the politics of performance
- Drag in the daylight
- Rags to drag riches
- The current reigning symbol of excellence
- A crime unfit to be named
- The ingredients of offense
- Race, sex, and queer renegotiated
- Redefinition
- Public and private prejudice
- Constructing a gay life
- Creating space, separating the self
- Losing space, separating identities
- Mansion on the hill
- Economic opportunity and the queer community
- And then she came
- Epilogue: queer comes home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781557289438
- 1557289433
- OCLC:
- 635457665
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