Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past

✍ Scribed by Peter Boag

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 557 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0520270622

✦ Synopsis

"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.;Citing a cultural moment at the turn of the twentieth century - when the frontier ended, the United States entered the modern era, and homosexuality was created as a category - this title shows how the American people, and thus the American nation, were bequeathed an unambiguous heterosexual identity