Blame it on the Casa Nova?: "Good scenery and sodomy" in rural southwestern Pennsylvania

Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A.

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 109-136

  Heibel, Todd ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203952771     Document Type: Chapter

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