Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past

Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780520949959
ISBN-13 : 0520949951
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Book Synopsis Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past by : Peter Boag

Download or read book Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past written by Peter Boag and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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