{"product_id":"visibility-interrupted-carly-thomsen-9781517910648","title":"Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being \"out, loud, and proud.\" Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, \u003ci\u003eVisibility Interrupted\u003c\/i\u003e argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation. \u003cp\u003eFar from being an unambiguous good, argues Thomsen, visibility politics can, in fact, preclude collective action. They also advance metronormativity, postraciality, and capitalism. To make these interventions, Thomsen develops the theory of \u003ci\u003eunbecoming\u003c\/i\u003e: interrogating the relationship between that which we celebrate and that which we find disdainful--the past, the rural, politics--is crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics. Unbecoming precedes becoming. Drawing from critical race studies, disability studies, and queer Marxism, in addition to feminist and queer studies, the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carly Thomsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517910641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517910648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2022","brand":"Carly Thomsen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042581999871,"sku":"9781517910648","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d35fbd0f-4b9c-48cb-b16d-431ebe0741b1.jpg?v=1684962360","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/visibility-interrupted-carly-thomsen-9781517910648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}