For a Spell
Sissie Collectivism and Radical Witchery in the Southeast
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2025
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-9043-8 (ISBN)
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-9043-8 (ISBN)
In the Southeastern United States of the late 97 s, a regional network of radical communal gay households formed in the face of rising New Right terror. Comprised of primarily white, self-described sissies, the "Southeast Network," as it came to be known, spanned from the Ozarks, to New Orleans, to Appalachian Tennessee. Though this network was short-lived, its legacy lives on today through Short Mountain Sanctuary, a thriving member of the international network of Radical Faeries. Jason Ezell's intimate account of the formation and dissolution of these sissie houses reveals a little-known history of Southern gay liberation, nonbinary gender expression, and radical feminism and femininity.
Drawing from journals, letters, oral histories, collective manifestos, and newsletters, Ezell illustrates how these gay households nurtured their community through lesbian feminist practices such as collectivism, consciousness-raising, witchcraft rituals, and rural gatherings. As people and practices traveled from one house to another, these linked houses attempted to conjure underground sanctuaries for queer southerners. Preserving their moving stories, Ezell details the visions, experiments, and shortfalls of these radical households in their attempts to build solidarity, resist mounting right-wing violence, and sustain their revolutionary dreams for queer movements yet to come.
Drawing from journals, letters, oral histories, collective manifestos, and newsletters, Ezell illustrates how these gay households nurtured their community through lesbian feminist practices such as collectivism, consciousness-raising, witchcraft rituals, and rural gatherings. As people and practices traveled from one house to another, these linked houses attempted to conjure underground sanctuaries for queer southerners. Preserving their moving stories, Ezell details the visions, experiments, and shortfalls of these radical households in their attempts to build solidarity, resist mounting right-wing violence, and sustain their revolutionary dreams for queer movements yet to come.
Jason Ezell is head of learning and engagement at Miami University Libraries.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Gender and American Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 9 illustrations - 9 halftones, 1 table, notes, bibl., index - 1 Tables, unspecified - 9 Halftones, unspecified - Index - Bibliography |
| Verlagsort | Chapel Hill |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 25 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4696-9043-8 / 1469690438 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4696-9043-8 / 9781469690438 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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