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Author Boag, Peter.

Title Re-dressing America's frontier past [electronic resource] / Peter Boag.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 272 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cross-dressers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Gender identity -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Homosexuality -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780520270626 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520949959 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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