1st Edition

Queering Mayberry An Exploration of Sexuality and Gender in the Andy Griffith Show

By Matthew Thomas-Reid Copyright 2025
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

Queering Mayberry: An Exploration of Sexuality and Gender in the Andy Griffith Show is an interdisciplinary study which reexamines The Andy Griffith Show through the frame of queer theory, offering a fresh perspective on its cultural significance in the Southern Appalachians. Amid current debates on Critical Race Theory and LGBTQIA+ rights, the nostalgic pull of the “Myth of Mayberry”... Read more

1. Mayberry and Queer Ephemera  2. Barney: Portrait of the Queer Fool  3. Howard: The Boy Who Is Good to His Momma  4. Wild Men of the Hollar: Exploring Archetypes of the Appalachian 'Other'  5. Blurring Gender in the Hills: Old Maids, Eroticism and a Longing to be Seen  6. Opie's Queered Education  7. You Can't Go Home Again

Biography

Matthew Thomas-Reid, Ph.D is Associate Professor in Leadership and Educational Studies and affiliate faculty with Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Appalachian State University. He began his career as a middle school social studies teacher, and his areas of research include Appalachian Studies, philosophy of education, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality.