Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West

Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West

Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West

Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West

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Overview

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415924702
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/11/2001
Pages: 318
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Matthew Basso is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota.Laura McCall is Associate Professor of History at Metropolitan State College in Denver, and a co-editor of A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender. Dee Garceau is Assistant Professor of History at Rhodes College and the author of The Important Things in Life: Women, Work & Family in Wyoming.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS Introduction Laura McCall 'Tell Me With Whim You Walk and I will Tell you Who You Are':Honor and Virtue in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Mexico Ramon A. Gutierrez Bulls, Bears and Dancing Boys:Race, Gender and Leisure in California Goldrush Susan Lee Johnson Manly Gamblles:The Politics of Risk on the Comstock Lode, 1860-1880 Guther Peck Cool to the End: Public Hangings and Western Manhood Durwood Ball White Men, Red Masks: Appropriations of Indian Manhood in Imagined Wests David Anthony(Tyee-me)Clark and Joane Nagel A Distinction and Antagonistic Race: Constructions of Chinese Manhood in the Inclusion Debates, 1869-1878 Karen Leong Nomads, Bunkies, Cross-Dressers, and Family Me: Coyboy Identity and the Gendering of Ranch Work Dee Garceau Domesticated Bliss: Ranchers and Their Animals Karen Merrill Man-Power: Montana Copper Workers, State Authority, and the (Re)Drafting of Manhood in World War II Matthew Basso On The Road: Cassady, Kerouac, and Images of Late Western Masculinity Craig Leavitt 'All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes':The Utilization of Cowboy-Hero Image in Contemporary Asian American Literature Steven Lee 'I guess your warrior look dosen't work every time': Challenging Indian Masculinity in the Cinema Brian Klopotek Tex-Sex-Mex: American: American Identities, Lone Star, and the Politics of Radicalized Sexuality Jose Limon
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