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OverviewAmericans 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter BoagPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780520274426ISBN 10: 0520274423 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 01 September 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is fascinating stuff, on many levels... If you're a western history buff especially, you need to outfit yourself with this book soon. --Inland Empire Weekly A extremely valuable work. --Pacific Northwest Quarterly Challenging, informative work... Highly recommended. --Choice A lovely (and at times wry) new volume. --Western Historical Qtly Fascinating... [An] impressive contribution to western and gender history. --American Historical Review A extremely valuable work. -- Pacific Northwest Quarterly A lovely (and at times wry) new volume. -- Western Historical Qtly Challenging, informative work. . . . Highly recommended. -- Choice This is fascinating stuff, on many levels. . . . If you're a western history buff especially, you need to outfit yourself with this book soon. -- Inland Empire Weekly Author InformationPeter Boag holds the Columbia Chair in the History of the American West at Washington State University. He is the author of Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon and Same Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest, both from UC Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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