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That which is not what it seems: Que...

Kuban, Kaila G.

That which is not what it seems: Queer youth, rurality, class and the architecture of assistance.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	That which is not what it seems: Queer youth, rurality, class and the architecture of assistance.
Author:	Kuban, Kaila G.
Description:	412 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-04, Section: A, page: 1409.
Notes:	Adviser: Jacqueline Urla.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-04A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3397722
ISBN:	9781109698930

That which is not what it seems: Queer youth, rurality, class and the architecture of assistance.
Kuban, Kaila G.

That which is not what it seems: Queer youth, rurality, class and the architecture of assistance. - 412 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-04, Section: A, page: 1409.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010.

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (or 'queer') youth are increasingly the objects of intense concern for 'the state', subjects of -- and subject to -- a panoply of interventional programs designed to mediate against queer youths' 'risk-taking' behaviors. While the material and structural realities of queer youth's lives are discursively absent in policy formation, they largely determine policy implementation and significantly shape policy reception, as there is an uneven distribution of state-based queer youth programming in Massachusetts. In the Commonwealth it is primarily rural and working-class community-based organizations that receive most of the interventional programs, and thus it is working-class and rural queer youth who remain the primary -- yet unarticulated - targets of state intervention. This research project is designed as an ethnographic intervention into the discursive absence - yet implicit operationalization - of class and geography in queer youth policy discussions and programming, exploring how working-class rural queer youth experience both their lives writ large as well as the programs designed to 'help' them navigate their way to a 'healthy' adulthood.

ISBN: 9781109698930Subjects--Topical Terms:

212460
Anthropology, Cultural.

That which is not what it seems: Queer youth, rurality, class and the architecture of assistance.
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