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"From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker’s Clubs, Out in the Country offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today’s rural queer youth. Mary L. Gray maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders, providing a fascinating and often surprising look at the contours of gay life beyond the big city. Gray illustrates that, against a backdrop of an increasingly impoverished and privatized rural America, LGBT youth and their allies visibly—and often vibrantly—work the boundaries of the public spaces available to them, whether in their high schools, public libraries, town hall meetings, churches, or through websites. This important book shows that, in addition to the spaces of Main Street, rural LGBT youth explore and carve out online spaces to fashion their emerging queer identities. Their triumphs and travails defy clear distinctions often drawn between online and offline experiences of identity, fundamentally redefining our understanding of the term ‘queer visibility’ and its political stakes. Gray combines ethnographic insight with incisive cultural critique, engaging with some of the biggest issues facing both queer studies and media scholarship. Out in the Country is a timely and groundbreaking study of sexuality and gender, new media, youth culture, and the meaning of identity and social movements in a digital age." --
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In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work.Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These people doing'ghost work'make the internet seem smart. They perform high-tech piecework: flagging X-rated content, proofreading, designing engine parts, and much more. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked at least once in this “ghost economy,” and that number is growing. They usually earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or none. There are no labor laws to govern this kind of work, and these latter-day assembly lines draw in—and all too often overwork and underpay—a surprisingly diverse range of workers: harried young mothers, professionals forced into early retirement, recent grads who can't get a toehold on the traditional employment ladder, and minorities shut out of the jobs they want. Gray and Suri also show how ghost workers, employers, and society at large can ensure that this new kind of work creates opportunity—rather than misery—for those who do it.
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend upon urban life for meaning.By considering rural queer life, the contributors challenge readers to explore queer experiences in ways that give greater context and texture to modern practices of identity formation. The book’s focus on understudied rural spaces throws into relief the overemphasis of urban locations and structures in the current political and theoretical work on queer sexualities and genders. Queering the Countryside highlights the need to rethink notions of “the closet” and “coming out” and the characterizations of non-urban sexualities and genders as “isolated” and in need of “outreach.” Contributors focus on a range of topics—some obvious, some delightfully unexpected—from the legacy of Matthew Shepard, to how heterosexuality is reproduced at the 4-H Club, to a look at sexual encounters at a truck stop, to a queer reading of TheWizard of Oz.A journey into an unexplored slice of life in rural America, Queering the Countryside offers a unique perspective on queer experience in the modern United States and Canada.
Estudios de genero --- Mujeres --- Homosexualidad --- Transexualismo --- Vida rural --- Sexualidad --- Aspecto social --- Rural gay men. --- Rural lesbians. --- Country life. --- Sociology, Rural. --- Homosexuality --- Study and teaching. --- Sexual and Gender Minorities. --- Rural Population. --- Rural Health. --- Sexual minorities. --- Gender minorities --- GLBT people --- GLBTQ people --- Lesbigay people --- LBG people --- LGBT people --- LGBTQ people --- Non-heterosexual people --- Non-heterosexuals --- Sexual dissidents --- Minorities --- Hygiene, Rural --- Rural public health --- Environmental health --- Health --- Public health --- Medicine, Rural --- Rural Communities --- Rural Spatial Distribution --- Rural Residence --- Communities, Rural --- Community, Rural --- Distribution, Rural Spatial --- Distributions, Rural Spatial --- Population, Rural --- Populations, Rural --- Residence, Rural --- Rural Community --- Rural Populations --- Rural Residences --- Rural Spatial Distributions --- Bisexuals --- GLBT Persons --- GLBTQ Persons --- Gender Minorities --- Homosexuals --- LBG Persons --- LGBT Persons --- LGBTQ Persons --- Lesbians --- Lesbigay Persons --- Men Who Have Sex With Men --- Non-Heterosexual Persons --- Non-Heterosexuals --- Queers --- Sexual Dissidents --- Sexual Minorities --- Women Who Have Sex With Women --- Gays --- Bisexual --- Dissident, Sexual --- Dissidents, Sexual --- GLBT Person --- GLBTQ Person --- Gay --- Gender Minority --- Homosexual --- LBG Person --- LGBT Person --- LGBTQ Person --- Lesbian --- Lesbigay Person --- Minorities, Gender --- Minorities, Sexual --- Minority, Gender --- Minority, Sexual --- Non Heterosexual Persons --- Non Heterosexuals --- Non-Heterosexual --- Non-Heterosexual Person --- Person, GLBT --- Person, GLBTQ --- Person, LBG --- Person, LGBT --- Person, LGBTQ --- Person, Lesbigay --- Person, Non-Heterosexual --- Persons, GLBT --- Persons, GLBTQ --- Persons, LBG --- Persons, LGBT --- Persons, LGBTQ --- Persons, Lesbigay --- Queer --- Sexual Dissident --- Sexual Minority --- Bisexuality --- Homosexuality, Male --- Homosexuality, Female --- Gay men --- Rural men
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Developmental psychology --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sexology --- Fiction --- Social geography --- History as a science --- Transgender --- Heterosexuality --- Homophobia --- Homosexuality --- Identity --- Literature --- Masculinity --- Oral history --- Rural areas --- Sexuality --- Women --- Blackness --- Book --- Experiences --- Canada --- United States of America
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