| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 316 pages) : illustrations |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. Farm Boys undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm families in the midwestern United States. These men speak of the ways their farm upbringings influenced the course and character of their lives, especially with regard to gender identity and sexual orientation. Whether painful, funny, or matter-of-fact, their plain-spoken accounts will move and educate any reader, gay or not, from farm or city. |
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Looking back on boyhood, these men recall how they experienced and responded to a variety of limiting conditions common to rural life: rigid gender roles, social isolation, ethnic homogeneity and racism, suspicion of the unfamiliar, sexual prudishness, religious conservatism, and scant access to information. At the same time, many speak with pleasure of their accomplishments in farm and home activities, their love for the rural landscape and its elbowroom, and their appreciation of strong ties to family, church, and community. |
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Many of the men in this book no longer live in farm communities. From their urban homes, they consider their gains and losses in leaving rural life. Of those who remain in farm communities, some live quite openly in gay relationships or by themselves; others keep their sexual identity secret from their families and neighbors. Their stories reveal with candor and insight the diversity of gay men's lives and show how growing up gay in the Midwest has changed over the course of the century. |
| Note |
The Cushing Library/Women and Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. TXA |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Rural gay men -- Middle West -- Case studies.
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Farmers -- Middle West -- Case studies.
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Farm life -- Middle West.
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Farm life. (OCoLC)fst00921052
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Farmers. (OCoLC)fst00921321
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Rural gay men. (OCoLC)fst01101643
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Middle West. (OCoLC)fst01240052
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Ländlicher Raum. (DE-588)4034026-0
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Homosexualität. (DE-588)4025798-8
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Mann. (DE-588)4037363-0
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Biografie. (DE-588)4006804-3
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Mittlerer Westen. (DE-588)4074909-5
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Gay men -- Personal narratives.
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Homosexualité masculine -- États-Unis -- Cas, Études de.
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Agriculteurs -- États-Unis -- Cas, Études de.
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Mann.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General.
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collective biographies. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300080111
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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Biographies.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fellows, Will. Farm boys. Madison, Wiscinsin : University of Wisconsin Press, [1996] 0299150801 (DLC) 96006058 (OCoLC)34192295 |
| ISBN |
9780299150891 (electronic book) |
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0299150895 (electronic book) |
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