PDF/ePub Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming By Carly Thomsen
Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming
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
Product details: Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming
Author : Carly Thomsen
Pages : 264 pages
Publisher : Univ Of Minnesota Press
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ISBN-10 : 1517910641
ISBN-13 : 9781517910648
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