Sex of the Midwest - Softcover

Ryle, Robyn

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798998954702

Publisher: Galiot Press, 2025

Synopsis

With humor and grace, Ryle depicts a quirky cast of characters and their post-pandemic hopes, fears, gripes, and longings in this engaging collection of linked stories. One foggy morning, an email appears in inboxes across the small town of Lanier, Indiana. "Invitation to Participate: Sexual Practices in a Small Midwestern Town," the subject line reads. A link leads to an extensive survey. Street by street and resident by resident-from the basketball coach in retirement with a bad lung, to the bartender finding her way to writing, to the health department worker with a vendetta against the hot-dog vendor-the email opens up the secret (and not so secret) lives of one community, and reveals the surprising complexity of love, friendship, and belonging in our post-Covid times.

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About the Author

Robyn Ryle is a writer and a professor of sociology and gender studies at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana. She received her PhD in sociology from Indiana University-Bloomington and is originally from northern Kentucky. She is the author of a young adult novel, FAIR GAME, about a girls' basketball team that challenges the boys to a high-stakes game, and of THROW LIKE A GIRL, CHEER LIKE A BOY: THE EVOLUTION OF GENDER, IDENTITY, AND RACE IN SPORTS about the history of sports from a sociological perspective. Find more at robynryle.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Galiot Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798998954702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234