Visibility Interrupted

Visibility Interrupted
Author :
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 296
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781452965109
ISBN-13 : 1452965102
Rating : 4/5 (102 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Visibility Interrupted by : Carly Thomsen

Download or read book Visibility Interrupted written by Carly Thomsen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 which we celebrate and that which we find disdainful—the past, the rural, politics—is crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics. Unbecoming precedes becoming. Drawing from critical race studies, disability studies, and queer Marxism, in addition to feminist and queer studies, the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility.


Visibility Interrupted Related Books

Visibility Interrupted
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Carly Thomsen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-27 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 g
Science Interrupted
Language: en
Pages: 104
Authors: Timothy G. McLellan
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Science Interrupted examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. Tim
Home Is Where Your Politics Are
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: Jessica A. Scott
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-06-14 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a transnational consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa. Through ethnographic exploration
The New Visibility of Religion
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Graham Ward
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-09 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Since the late 1980s sociologists have been drawing our attention to an international surge in the public visibility of religion. This has increasingly challeng
Climatological Data, National Summary
Language: en
Pages: 804
Authors: United States. Weather Bureau
Categories: Meteorology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1955 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK