Uncovering the history of gender and sexual nonconformity in rural America during the first half of the twentieth century

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I

1 Life Science: The Agrarian Origins of American Sexuality

2 Town and Country: Country Life and the Nationalization of Middle-Class Morality

Section II

3 Casual Sex: Homosociality, Homosexuality, and the Itinerant Working Poor

4 Community Standards: Village Mentality and the Queer Eccentric

5 Camp Life: The Queer History of “Manhood” in the Civilian Conservation Corps

6 Hard Women: Rural Women and Female Masculinity

Conclusion: Mansfield, Ohio

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Colin R. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Studies, History, and Human Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington.