Re-dressing America's frontier past / Peter Boag.

Author/creator Boag, Peter
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Descriptionxii, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Cross-dressers--West (U.S.). --History. --19th century.
Gender identity--West (U.S.). --History. --19th century.
Homosexuality--West (U.S.). --History. --19th century.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-347) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011009443
ISBN9780520270626 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520270622 (cloth : alk. paper)