04415nam 2200997 a 450 991082004060332120240514022154.01-283-27831-697866132783190-520-94995-110.1525/9780520949959(CKB)2550000000043549(EBL)743995(SSID)ssj0000540711(PQKBManifestationID)11348721(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540711(PQKBWorkID)10598342(PQKB)10120682(MiAaPQ)EBC743995(DE-B1597)518831(OCoLC)755631641(DE-B1597)9780520949959(Au-PeEL)EBL743995(CaPaEBR)ebr10492898(CaONFJC)MIL327831(dli)HEB32819(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000492(EXLCZ)99255000000004354920110318d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRe-dressing America's frontier past /Peter Boag1st ed.Berkeley University of California Press20111 online resource (270 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27442-3 0-520-27062-2 Includes bibliographical references and index."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.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.Gender-nonconforming peopleWest (U.S.)History19th centuryGender identityWest (U.S.)History19th centuryHomosexualityWest (U.S.)History19th centuryamerican history.american indians.american west.cross dressing.easterners.frontier life.gender and sexuality.gender identities.gender studies.historians.historical.homosexuality.literary history.mexicans.native americans.nonfiction.old west culture.old west.psychology of sexuality.queer studies.romantic history.romantic images.sexological perspective.sexual identities.united states.us history.western frontier.Gender-nonconforming peopleHistoryGender identityHistoryHomosexualityHistory306.77/8097809034Boag Peter1961-1012968MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820040603321Re-dressing America's frontier past2353888UNINA