Books : Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South
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by: James T. Sears
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.906640975
EAN: 9780813529646
ISBN: 0813529646
Label: Rutgers University Press
Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 420
Publication Date: July 30, 2001
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Sales Rank: 382979
Studio: Rutgers University Press
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Boring history, confusing descriptions, good footnotes
This is basically a textbook, written by an academician, and the poor fella has amassed plenty of data, but how about a logical narrative format?
He jumps around too much, from this person to that person. It's too hard to keep up with who's who. Sure, if you were a person IN the book, like Jesse (below), you maybe understand who these people are. I didn't, didn't know a one of them, well, take that back. I know who Jim Garrison was (is?...is he still alive?), and who Clay Shaw was...Rita ... Read More
Rating:  - Needed stories
With this landmark study, James T. Sears provides not only an important document of hidden American history but also an entertaining and sometimes disturbing narrative of struggles for freedom and equality. Sadly, though, he sees the same racism and sexism inside gay communities that he saw working against those very communities. While women in general kept fighting to dress as they like, work where they like, and express themselves openly, gay women faced a male-dominated gay movement. While encountering ... Read More
Rating: - Gay Southern History by Those Who Lived It
As one of the 1970's activists featured in Jim Sears's book, I am naturally biased. But as a student of lesbian and gay history, I enjoyed and appreciated his take on lesbian and gay life in the South in the decade between Stonewall and AIDS. Like Barbara Tuchman's "Stilwell" and "A Distant Mirror", Sears combines biography and history, which directs the narrative and makes it more interesting to the average reader. People like Jack Nichols, Lige Clarke and Merrill Mushroom, who appeared in Sears's previous ... Read More
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