Intimate frontiers
Subtitle: sex, gender, and culture in old California
By: Albert L. Hurtado.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Histories of the American frontier
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Sex role -- California -- History -- 18th century.; Sex role -- California -- History -- 19th century.; Heterosexuality -- Social aspects -- California -- History -- 18th century.; Heterosexuality -- Social aspects -- California -- History -- 19th century.; Frontier and pioneer life -- California.; California -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.; California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.; California -- Race relations.
Description: This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags - those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States - Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining camps, on overland trails and sea journeys, and in San Francisco.

In these settings Hurtado explores courtship, marriage, reproduction, and family life as a way to understand how men and women - whether Native American, Anglo American, Hispanic, Chinese, or of mixed blood - fit into or reshaped the roles and identities set by their race and gender.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.