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Oklahomo : lessons in unqueering America / Carol Mason.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mason, Carol, 1964- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in queer politics and cultures.
- SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homophobia--Oklahoma.
- Homophobia.
- Homophobia--United States.
- Homophobia--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Conservatism--Oklahoma.
- Conservatism.
- Christian conservatism--Oklahoma.
- Christian conservatism.
- Christian conservatism--United States.
- Gay rights--United States.
- Gay rights.
- Queer theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By exploring the scandal-filled lives of four Oklahomans, this book demonstrates how unqueering operates in a conservative American context. Carol Mason weaves a story about how homogenizing, antigay ideas evolve from generation to generation so that they achieve particular economic, imperial, racial, and gendered goals. Using engaging and accessible commentary on antigay crusaders (Sally Kern and Anita Bryant) and two queer teachers dismissed from their positions (Billy James Hargis and Bruce Goff), Mason illustrates how the lives of these figures represent paradigmatic moments in conservative confrontations with queers and help us to understand the conflation of terrorism with homosexuality, which dates back to the McCarthy era.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Unqueering America: An Introduction
- Why Oklahoma?
- Why Queer? Why Rural?
- Why Oklahomo?
- 2 Sally Kern: The Queer Terrorist in Middle America
- The Sexuality of Terrorism in Middle America
- Nearly Queer and Not Quite Racist
- The Stoning of Secular Humanism
- Perpetual Emergency in the Transnational Heartland
- 3 Anita Bryant: Oklahoma Roots and National Fruits
- Oklahoma Roots
- National Fruits
- Our Children
- 4 Billy James Hargis: Sinister, Satanic Sex
- Hargis on the Rise: Negotiating Religion and Racism
- Hargis's Fall: Attempt and Failure to Negotiate Sexuality
- The Fallout: Lessons for the New Right
- 5 Bruce Goff: How to Stop Enjoying and Learn to Fear Queer Art
- Queer Anti-Urban Spaces
- Architecture of a Smear
- 6 Queer Times in Wal-Mart Country: A Meandering Conclusion
- Where I Come From
- Late Capitalism and Antigay Identity
- Notes
- Works Cited and Collections
- Collections
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version.
- ISBN:
- 9781438457192
- 1438457197
- OCLC:
- 940521390
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