1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456974803321

Autore

Boag Peter

Titolo

Re-dressing America's frontier past [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Boag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-27831-6

9786613278319

0-520-94995-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

306.77/8097809034

Soggetti

Cross-dressers - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century

Gender identity - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century

Homosexuality - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461828103321

Autore

Hogan Lillian Bullshows <1904-2003.>

Titolo

The woman who loved mankind [[electronic resource] ] : the life of a twentieth-century Crow elder Lillian Bullshows Hogan as told to Barbara Loeb & Mardell Hogan Plainfeather

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-68775-4

9786613664693

0-8032-4330-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (494 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LoebBarbara

PlainfeatherMardell Hogan

Disciplina

978.6004/975272

B

Soggetti

Crow women

Crow Indians - History

Crow Indians - Social life and customs

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Barbara Loeb; Thoughts about My Mother by Mardell Hogan Plainfeather; Genealogies; Chapter One: My Birth and Infancy; Chapter Two: My Mother; Chapter Three: My Father; Chapter Four: My Parents Meet and Marry; Chapter Five: My First Memories; Chapter Six: Boarding School; Chapter Seven: Memories of Youth; Chapter Eight: My Mother Teaches Me to Be a Good Woman; Chapter Nine: Tobacco Iipche (Sacred Pipe Society)and the Medicine



Dance (Tobacco Society); Chapter Ten: We Were Always Hard Up

Chapter Eleven: The Last Years in SchoolChapter Twelve: My First Marriage Was to Alex; Chapter Thirteen: We're Adopted into the Tobacco Society; Chapter Fourteen: I Married Robbie Yellowtail; Chapter Fifteen: Paul; Chapter Sixteen: George; Chapter Seventeen: The Kids Are Growing Up; Chapter Eighteen: Sacred Experiences; Chapter Nineteen: Traditional Healing; Chapter Twenty: I Gave Indian Names; Chapter Twenty-One: I'm an Old-Timer; Chapter Twenty-Two: Education; Chapter Twenty-Three: Life as an Elder; Bibliography; Index