{"product_id":"just-queer-folks-colin-r-johnson-9781439909980","title":"Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America","description":"\u003cp\u003e Most studies of lesbian and gay history focus on urban environments. Yet gender and sexual diversity were anything but rare in nonmetropolitan areas in the first half of the twentieth century. \u003ci\u003eJust Queer Folks \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the seldom-discussed history of same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity in rural and small-town America during a period when the now familiar concepts of heterosexuality and homosexuality were just beginning to take shape. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEschewing the notion that identity is always the best measure of what can be known about gender and sexuality, Colin R. Johnson argues instead for a queer historicist approach. In so doing, he uncovers a startlingly unruly rural past in which small-town eccentrics, \"mannish\" farm women, and cross-dressing Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees were often just queer folks so far as their neighbors were concerned. Written with wit and verve, \u003ci\u003e Just Queer Folks \u003c\/i\u003eupsets a whole host of contemporary commonplaces, including the notion that queer history is always urban history.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin R. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439909989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439909980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.09w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/27\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2013 pg. 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2013","brand":"Colin R. Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44410681262335,"sku":"9781439909980","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3b2687d9-c468-4588-98e4-b9cfb917eac2.jpg?v=1697537290","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/just-queer-folks-colin-r-johnson-9781439909980","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}