{"id":776170,"date":"2016-03-01T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-blog-post&#038;p=776170"},"modified":"2021-09-17T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T22:34:53","slug":"queering-the-countryside-new-frontiers-in-rural-queer-studies","status":"publish","type":"msr-blog-post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/articles\/queering-the-countryside-new-frontiers-in-rural-queer-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mlg\/\"><strong>Mary L. Gray<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <strong>Brian J. Gilley<\/strong>, <strong>Colin R. Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-776176 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/09\/Book_Gray_Queering-Countryside_cover-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover: Queering the Countryside\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/09\/Book_Gray_Queering-Countryside_cover-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/09\/Book_Gray_Queering-Countryside_cover-122x180.jpg 122w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/09\/Book_Gray_Queering-Countryside_cover.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rural 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. <em><strong>Queering the Countryside<\/strong><\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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. <em>Queering the Countryside<\/em> highlights the need to rethink notions of \u201cthe closet\u201d and \u201ccoming out\u201d and the characterizations of non-urban sexualities and genders as \u201cisolated\u201d and in need of \u201coutreach.\u201d Contributors focus on a range of topics\u2014some obvious, some delightfully unexpected\u2014from 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 <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479880584\/queering-the-countryside\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See news, reviews and how to get it ><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40306,"featured_media":776179,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr-content-parent":332906,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"class_list":["post-776170","msr-blog-post","type-msr-blog-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_assoc_parent":{"id":332906,"type":"group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/776170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-blog-post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/776170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776191,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/776170\/revisions\/776191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=776170"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=776170"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=776170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}