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An edition of Re-dressing America's frontier past (2011)

Re-dressing America's frontier past

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Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a vivid picture of a West where cross-dressing—for both men and women—was pervasive, and where easterners as well as Mexicans and even Indians could redefine their gender and sexual identities. Boag asks, why has this history been forgotten and erased? Citing a cultural moment at the turn of the twentieth century—when the frontier ended, the United States entered the modern era, and homosexuality was created as a category—Boag shows how the American people, and thus the American nation, were bequeathed an unambiguous heterosexual identity.

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University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
257

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Subjects

Transvestites, Gender identity, Homosexuality, History, Cross-dressers, United states, social conditions, LGBTQ history, LGBT history, PSYCHOLOGY, Human Sexuality, SELF-HELP, Sexual Instruction, General, Cross-dressers--history, Cross-dressers--west (u.s.)--history--19th century, Gender identity--history, Gender identity--west (u.s.)--history--19th century, Homosexuality--history, Homosexuality--west (u.s.)--history--19th century, Hq77.2.u6 b63 2011, 306.77/8097809034

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West (U.S.)

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19th century
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2011, University of California Press
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2011, University of California Press
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Table of Contents

"Known to all police west of the Mississippi" : disrobing the female-to-male cross-dresser
"I have done my part in the winning of the West" : unveiling the male-to-female cross-dresser
"And love is a vision and life is a lie" : the daughters of Calamity Jane
"He was a Mexican" : race and the marginalization of male-to-female cross-dressers in Western history
"Death of a modern Diana" : sexologists, cross-dressers, and the heteronormalization of the American frontier
Conclusion : Sierra Flats and haunted valleys : cross-dressers and the contested terrain of America's frontier past.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-347) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.77/8097809034
Library of Congress
HQ77.2.U6 B63 2011, HQ77.2.U6B63 2011, HQ77.2.U6 B63 2011eb

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xii, 257 p. :
Number of pages
257

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OL25066550M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0520270622
ISBN 13
9780520270626
LCCN
2011009443
OCLC/WorldCat
708243731, 755631641

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