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.