Oklahomo: lessons in unqueering America

Item

Format
book
Creator
Mason, Carol
Title
Oklahomo: lessons in unqueering America
isbn
978-1-4384-5717-8
Has Version
https://www.worldcat.org/title/890107274
Abstract
"By exploring the scandal-filled lives of four Oklahomans, this book demonstrates how unqueering operates in a conservative American context. Carol Mason weaves a story about how homogenizing, antigay ideas evolve from generation to generation so that they achieve particular economic, imperial, racial, and gendered goals. Using engaging and accessible commentary on antigay crusaders (Sally Kern and Anita Bryant) and two queer teachers dismissed from their positions (Billy James Hargis and Bruce Goff), Mason illustrates how the lives of these figures represent paradigmatic moments in conservative confrontations with queers and help us to understand the conflation of terrorism with homosexuality, which dates back to the McCarthy era"--Provided by publisher
Date
2015
number of pages
217
Publisher
SUNY Press, State University of New York Press
Publication location
Albany
Subject
Goff, Bruce
Identifier
4C443RN2