Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming - Carly Thomsen - Grāmatas - University of Minnesota Press - 9781517910648 - 2021. gada 27. jūlijs
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Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming


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A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest

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, Visibility Interrupted 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.

Far 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 unbecoming: 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.

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Izlaists 2021. gada 27. jūlijs
ISBN13 9781517910648
Izdevēji University of Minnesota Press
Lapas 264
Izmēri 140 × 216 × 38 mm   ·   376 g
Valoda Angļu  

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