Re-dressing America's frontier past /

Boag, Peter.

Re-dressing America's frontier past / Peter Boag. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. - xii, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-347) 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.

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Cross-dressers--History--West (U.S.)--19th century.
Gender identity--History--West (U.S.)--19th century.
Homosexuality--History--West (U.S.)--19th century.

HQ77.2.U6 / B63 2011