The un-natural state : Arkansas and the queer South /
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| Author / Creator: | Thompson, Brock, 1977- |
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| Imprint: | Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2010. |
| Description: | xi, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8205778 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Outing Opal, Outing Arkansas
- Part 1. The Diamond State
- 1. Powder-Puff
- 2. Drag and the Politics of Performance
- 3. Drag in the Daylight
- 4. Rags to Drag Riches
- 5. The Current Reigning Symbol of Excellence
- Part 2. The Natural State
- 6. A Crime Unfit to Be Named
- 7. The Ingredients of Offense
- 8. Race, Sex, and Queer Renegotiated
- 9. Redefinition
- 10. Public and Private Prejudice
- 11. Constructing a Gay Life
- Part 3. The Land of Opportunity
- 12. Creating Space, Separating the Self
- 13. Losing Space, Separating Identities
- 14. Mansion on the Hill
- 15. Economic Opportunity and the Queer Community
- 16. And Then She Came
- Epilogue: Queer Comes Home
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
