Queering the countryside: new frontiers in rural queer studies

Part I. New archives, new epistemologies

1. Out back home: an exploration of LGBT identities and community in rural Nova Scotia, Canada / Kelly Baker

2. Horatio Alger's queer frontier / Geoffrey W. Bateman

3. Sherwood Anderson's "shadowy figure": rural masculinity in the modernizing Midwest / Andy Oler

4. A classroom in the barnyard: reproducing heterosexuality in interwar American 4-H / Gabriel N. Rosenberg

Part II. The rural turn: considering cartographies of race and class

5. The waiting arms of Gold Street: Manuel Munoz's 'Faith healer of Olive Avenue' and the problem of the scaffold imaginary / Mary Pat Brady

6. Snorting the powder of life: transgender migration in the land of 'Oz' / Lucas Crawford

7. Outside forces: black southern sexuality / LaToya E. Eaves

Part III. Back and forth: rural queer life in circulation and transition

8. "We are here for you": the it gets better project, queering rural space, and cultivating queer media literacy / Mark Hain

9. Queer interstates: cultural geography and social contact in 'Kansas City Trucking Co.' and 'El Paso Wrecking Corp.' / Ryan Powell

10. Epistemology of the bunkhouse: lusty lumberjacks and the sexual pedagogy of the woods / Peter Hobbs

11. Rethinking the closet: queer life in rural geographies / Katherine Schweighofer

12. In plain(s) sight: rural LGBTQ women and the politics of visibility / Carly Thomsen

Part IV. Bodies of evidence: methodologies and their discontents

13. (Dis)locating queer citizenship: imaging rurality in Matthew Shepard's memory / E. Cram

14. Queering the American frontier: finding queerness and sexual difference in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Colorado / Robin Henry

15. Digital oral history and the limits of gay sex / John Howard

16. Queer rurality and the materiality of time / Stina Soderling.