...This book examines a queer disability history of rural whiteness in the US. Using insights from queer history, disability studies, the history of sexuality, and crip theory, the book reads against the grain of the anti-idyll—an optic that focuses on degeneracy and deviance in white rural America...

...Although the death of the small town has been predicted for decades, during the 1990s the population of rural America actually increased by more than three million people. This book explores these rural newcomers and the impact they have on the social relationships, public spaces, and community...