The un-natural state : Arkansas and the queer South / Brock Thompson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2010.Description: xi, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1557289433 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781557289438 (cloth : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Unnatural state
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.76/609767 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.3.U52 A885 2010
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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