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The un-natural state Arkansas and the queer South
Author
Title
The un-natural state [electronic resource] : Arkansas and the queer South / Brock Thompson.
ISBN
1610754433
9781610754439
1557289433 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781557289438 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 247 p. :) ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
This is a study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 U.S. Regional Studies Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 31, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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