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

Gray, Mary L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814731937 ISBN 13 : 9780814731932

Editeur : New York University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Mary L Gray

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker's Clubs, "Out in the Country" offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today's rural queer youth. Mary L. Gray maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders, providing a fascinating and often surprising look at the contours of gay life beyond the big city. Gray illustrates that, against a backdrop of an increasingly impoverished and privatized rural America, LGBT youth and their allies visibly - and often vibrantly - work the boundaries of the public spaces available to them, whether in their high schools, public libraries, town hall meetings, churches, or through websites. This important book shows that, in addition to the spaces of Main Street, rural LGBT youth explore and carve out online spaces to fashion their emerging queer identities. Their triumphs and travails defy clear distinctions often drawn between online and offline experiences of identity, fundamentally redefining our understanding of the term 'queer visibility' and its political stakes. Gray combines ethnographic insight with incisive cultural critique, engaging with some of the biggest issues facing both queer studies and media scholarship. "Out in the Country" is a timely and groundbreaking study of sexuality and gender, new media, youth culture, and the meaning of identity and social movements in a digital age.

Revue de presse :

"Out in the Country promises to excite and ignite our critical imaginations as it pushes us to reckon with the complexity of queer lives away from the urban spotlight. Gray has done a stupendous job in bringing these stories to light, and in analyzing them with such warmth, humor, and insight."
- --Suzanna Danuta Walters, author of "All the Rage"

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0814731937
• ISBN 13: 9780814731932
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 293