Jessica A. Scott

Home Is Where Your Politics Are

Queer Activism in the U.S. South and South Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a vivid consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa, situated in their own contexts and international narratives about those contexts. The book traverses international borders as boldly as the activists present in the text declare these spaces home.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781978836075
• ISBN-10: 1978836074
• Artikelnr.: 69203571

Autorenporträt

JESSICA A. SCOTT is an associate professor of gender studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 
2 Positionality and Method 
3 Sites of Struggle
4 Welcome to Modernity 
5 Metronormativity as Alienation 
6 Queer Organizing in Out-of-the-Way Places
7 When Whiteness Gets in the Way 
Appendix 
Acknowledgments
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index