The Stranger Next Door
The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights
In The Stranger Next Door, Alrene Stein explores how a small community with a declining industrial economy became the site of a bitter battle over gay rights. Fearing job loss and a feeling of being left behind, one Oregon town's working-class residents allied with religious conservatives to deny the civil liberties of queer men and women. In a book that combines strong on-the-ground research and lucid analysis with a novelist's imaginative sympathy, Stein's exploration of how fear and uncertainty can cause citizens to shift blame onto strangers provides insight into the challenges the country faces in the age of Trump. Winner of the 2001 Ru…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8070-0720-4
- EAN: 9780807007204
- Produktnummer: 38263061
- Verlag: Beacon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Arlene Stein is associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. She has written for The Nation, The Oregonian, and Newsday, among other publications, and is the author of Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation and editor of Sisters, Sexperts, Queers.
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