Format:
Book
Title:
Re-dressing America's frontier past / Peter Boag.
Author:
Boag, Peter. 1961-
Call Number:
306.778097 Boag
Publisher, Date:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Description:
xii, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Cross-dressers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Gender identity -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Homosexuality -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
LGBTQ+ people.
LGBTQ+ history.
Contents:
"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.
ISBN:
9780520270626 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520270622 (cloth : alk. paper)