Introduction : QueerCrip historical analysis and the rural white anti-idyll -- Harlots from the hollow : eugenic detectives on the lookout for the rural white hovel family -- Curious scenes : the fringes of rural rehabilitation in 1930s documentary photography -- Madness in the …
"Ryan Lee Cartwright's book narrates the queer history of gender, sexual, and social nonconformity in the 20th-century rural United States. Cartwright contends that in that period rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white neighbors was transformed into a popular disco…
Peculiar Places narrates queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity in twentieth-century rural United States. Ryan Lee Cartwright contends that, during the last hundred years, rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white neighbors crystallized into a na…