For a Spell by Jason Ezell
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.
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
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Within the Plantation Household
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Closer to Freedom
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Liberated Threads
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Gender and Jim Crow
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American Gold Digger
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Common Sense and a Little Fire
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Mobilizing New York
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Working Cures
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Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware
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Unruly Women
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Revising Life
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Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America
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Urban Borderlands
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Watching the Girls Go by
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Delinquent Daughters
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The Life and Death of Ryan White
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Republican Women
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The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America
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The Work of Self-Representation
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Radical Relations
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Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics
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Telling Histories
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Citizen, Mother, Worker
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Writing Reconstruction
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The Artistry of Anger
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Archives of Dispossession
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Too Much to Ask
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Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory
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Entitled to Power
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Women's Antiwar Diplomacy During the Vietnam War Era
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Labor and Desire
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Manliness and Its Discontents
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Confederate Sympathies
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Imagining Medea
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Worrying the Line
Jason Ezell is head of learning and engagement at Miami University Libraries.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781469690438 |
| ISBN 10 | 1469690438 |
| Title | For a Spell |
| Author | Jason Ezell |
| Series | Gender And American Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2025-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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