Reviews for Boomtown USA

The average rating for Boomtown USA based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-07-13 00:00:00 Jennifer Mitchell I live in a small town in Alaska. The mayor, Mrs. Porter used to live on my street, and would have my daughters over to back cookies with her. Yup we are talking small town USA. One day Mayor Porter returned from a competition to name our town an all American City with a copy of Boomtown. Not being one to do what I'm told, I put off reading it until I forgot where the recommendation came from. Don't make my mistake. If you care about the quality of life in your town, if you care about good governance, if you simply care, read Boomtown as soon as you can. T.R.D.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-12 00:00:00 Johnny Maldonado Sinfield is one of the more balanced authors in queer theory. He doesn't make claims so vast as to be untenable, and doesn't make claims so defensible as to be unimportantly intuitive. It's true, one would expect this text to deal more with Oscar Wilde's trail; however, the text deals with the century the developed Wilde and was influenced by Wilde. Most importantly the text deconstructs the notion of the effeminate gay man, and shows clearly how the separate notions of same-sex passion and effeminacy were conflated through the trials of Oscar Wilde to form the modern gay identity. This alone solidifies this text in queer theory as an important study in the hermeneutics of an aspect of modern identity. It doesn't stop there though, the text offers a "Subcultural Strategies" section at the end that is a valuable look at queer politics and the ways Sinfield sees it as able to move forward and maintain previous gains. None of the suggestions are as proactive and groundbreaking as one could hope for, but they are valuable nonetheless.