Most studies of lesbian and gay history focus on urban environments. Yet gender and sexual diversity were anything but rare in nonmetropolitan areas in the first half of the twentieth century. Just Queer Folks explores the seldom-discussed history of same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity in rural and small-town America during a period when the now familiar concepts of heterosexuality and homosexuality were just beginning to take shape. Eschewing the notion that identity is always the best measure of what can be known about gender and sexuality, Colin R. Johnson argues instead for a queer historicist approach. In so doing, he uncovers a startlingly unruly rural past in which small-town eccentrics, “mannish” farm women, and cross-dressing Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees were often just queer folks so far as their neighbors were concerned. Written with wit and verve, Just Queer Folks upsets a whole host of contemporary commonplaces, including the notion that queer history is always urban history.
Archive for August 2013
Father Involvement in Canada
Predictors and Moderators in the Randomized Trial of Multifamily Psychoeducational Psychotherapy for Childhood Mood Disorders
The Dynamics of Bosnian Refugee Migrations in the 1990s, Current Migration Trends and Future Prospects
Exploring the effect of depressive symptoms and ageing on metamemory in an Italian adult sample
Organisational Factors, Job Satisfaction and Intention to Leave Among Newly Qualified Social Workers in England
Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Sexual Intent Scale
Typology of Perfectionism in a Group of Mathematically Gifted Czech Adolescents Over One Decade
Mediating knowledge between research and practice in social work: a shared responsibility
Stigmatisation towards people with mental health problems in secondary school students: an international cross-sectional study between three cities in Japan, China and South-Korea
Patterns, designs and developments in qualitative research in social work: A research note
Hearts and Minds: Aspects of Empathy and Wellbeing in Social Work Students
Young Chinese children’s anger and distress: Emotion category and intensity identified by the time course of behaviors
Feminist politics and framing contests: Domestic violence policy in Scotland and Wales
The Grandparents Effect in Social Mobility: Evidence from British Birth Cohort Studies
The Primary Prevention of PTSD: A Systematic Review
The associations between psychiatric label use and young people’s help-seeking preferences: results from an Australian national survey
Transparency in the family courts and the court of protection: publication of judgments: draft practice guidance
Gender differences in the relationship between sexual satisfaction and propensity for risky sexual behavior
SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2012
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
The naturalistic turn in feminist theory: A Marxist-realist contribution
On your doorstep: Underage access to alcohol via home delivery services
Willingness to pay for methadone maintenance treatment in Vietnamese epicentres of injection-drug-driven HIV infection
Cognitive Bias Modification through positivity training for major depressive disorder (MDD) patients
The Interchangeability of Scores from Different Measures and Meta-Analytic Effect Size Comparability II: A Simulation Study
The development of resilience in social work students and professionals
Care for hospitalized patients with unhealthy alcohol use: a narrative review
Social Work Education’s Role in Addressing People and a Planet at Risk
Familiality of neural preparation and response control in childhood attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder
The Many Roles of Social Workers in the Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Addiction: A Major Health and Social Problem Affecting Individuals, Families, and Society
This is where we live: queering poor urban spaces in literature of black gay men
Red Cottages and Swedish Virtues: Swedish Institutional Drug Treatment as an Ideological Project 1968-1981
Using psychodynamic principles in formulation in everyday practice
Rise of Single Fathers
Queering disasters: on the need to account for LGBTI experiences in natural disaster contexts
Overdoses of Prescription Opioid Pain Relievers and Other Drugs Among Women — United States, 1999–2010
Framing Fat: Competing Constructions in Contemporary Culture
According to public health officials, obesity poses significant health risks and has become a modern-day epidemic. A closer look at this so-called epidemic, however, suggests that there are multiple perspectives on the fat body, not all of which view obesity as a health hazard. Alongside public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are advertisers of the fashion-beauty complex, food industry advocates at the Center for Consumer Freedom, and activists at the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance