Peculiar places a queer crip history of white rural nonconformity / Ryan Lee Cartwright.
| Author/creator | Cartwright, Ryan Lee |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021. |
| Description | 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Queer crip history of white rural nonconformity |
| Contents | Introduction : QueerCrip historical analysis and the rural white anti-idyll -- Harlots from the hollow : eugenic detectives on the lookout for the rural white hovel family -- Curious scenes : the fringes of rural rehabilitation in 1930s documentary photography -- Madness in the dead heart : Ed Gein and the fabrication of the transgender heartland "psycho" killer myth -- "Maimed in body and spirit" : the spectacle of white Appalachian poverty tours during the 1960s -- Banjos, chainsaws, and sodomy : making 1970s rural horror films and the apex of the anti-idyll -- Estranged but not strangers : nonconformity encounters identity in 1990s hate-crime documentaries. |
| Abstract | "Ryan Lee Cartwright's book narrates the queer history of gender, sexual, and social nonconformity in the 20th-century rural United States. Cartwright contends that in that period rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white neighbors was transformed into a popular discourse of white social degeneracy. He points to a tension between the idyll (rooted in the national myth of the Jeffersonian yeoman farmer and his idealized family) and the anti-idyll (the gender perversion, deviant sexuality, and uncouth moral values that are associated with rural white populations).Cartwright examines the anti-idyll in different genres from the 1910s through the 1990s: popular science in the 1910s and early '20s, documentary photography in the '30s, news media in the '50s, political rhetoric in the '60s, horror films in the '70s and early '80s, and documentary films in the 1990s"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021004006 |
| ISBN | 9780226696911 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780226696881 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |