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Just queer folks : gender and sexuality in rural America Colin R. Johnson

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HQ 76.3 .U5 J58 2013
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English
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Physical Description:
xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Life science: the agrarian origins of American sexuality
  • Town and country: country life and the nationalization of middle-class morality
  • Casual sex: homosociality, homosexuality, and the intinerant working poor
  • Community standards: village mentality and the queer eccentric
  • Camp life: the queer history of "manhood" in the Civilian Conservation Corps
  • Hard women: rural women and female masculinity
  • Conclusion: Mansfield, Ohio.
  • Text contains several Pennsylvania references, including the CCC camps which were in the state during the 1930s and 40s.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9781439909973 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1439909970 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781439909980 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1439909989 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
814455127
Publisher Number:
40022545367

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