Re-dressing America's frontier past
By: Peter Boag
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780520270626
Subjects: Transvestites; Gender identity; Homosexuality; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Known to all police west of the Mississippi" : disrobing the female-to-male cross-dresser; title: "I have done my part in the winning of the West" : unveiling the male-to-female cross-dresser; title: "And love is a vision and life is a lie" : the daughters of Calamity Jane; title: "He was a Mexican" : race and the marginalization of male-to-female cross-dressers in Western history; title: "Death of a modern Diana" : sexologists, cross-dressers, and the heteronormalization of the American frontier; title: Conclusion : Sierra Flats and haunted valleys : cross-dressers and the contested terrain of America's frontier past.