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UNINA9910456974803321 |
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Boag Peter |
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Titolo |
Re-dressing America's frontier past [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Boag |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 |
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1-283-27831-6 |
9786613278319 |
0-520-94995-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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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. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"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. |
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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 |
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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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UNINA9910461828103321 |
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Autore |
Hogan Lillian Bullshows <1904-2003.> |
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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 |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012 |
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1-280-68775-4 |
9786613664693 |
0-8032-4330-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (494 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LoebBarbara |
PlainfeatherMardell Hogan |
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Crow women |
Crow Indians - History |
Crow Indians - Social life and customs |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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