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Re-dressing America's frontier past
- Author
- Boag, Peter, 1961- author.
- Title
- Re-dressing America's frontier past / Peter Boag.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley, California ; London : University of California Press, 2012.
- Description
- xii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Notes
- Originally published: 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction: a trip along the Pike's Peak Express: cross-dressers and America's frontier past
- 1. "Females in male attire, and males in petticoats": remembering cross-dressers in western American and frontier history
- "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
- 2. "The story of the perverted life is not attractive": making the American West and the frontier heteronormative
- "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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Transvestism history. Gender role identification.
- ISBN
- 9780520274426 (pbk.) 0520274423 (pbk.)