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Howard, John. "Men Like That: Male Homosexualities in Mississippi, 1945-1985," Program in American Studies, Emory University, December 1997.
This work examines sexual and gender non-conformity, specifically male homosexualities and male-to-female transgender sexualities, in Mississippi, 1945 to 1985. In contrast to Urban-centered and identity-focused models of American lesbian and gay history, the dissertation attends to queer desire, both identity-based and not, in small towns and rural settings of meager economic resources. Informed by queer theory and spatial theory, the work argues that notions and experiences of male-male desire are in perpetual, dialectical relationship with the spaces in which they occur, mutually shaping one another. The dissertation relies on lived experiences as recuperated through oral history interviews and other sources.
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