eBook - ePub
Across the Great Divide
Cultures of Manhood in the American West
- 318 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Across the Great Divide
Cultures of Manhood in the American West
About this book
In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore.
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Yes, you can access Across the Great Divide by Matthew Basso,Laura McCall,Dee Garceau in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & World History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. “Tell Me with Whom You Walk and I Will Tell You Who You Are”: Honor and Virtue in Eighteenth-Century Colonial New Mexico
- 2. Bulls, Bears, and Dancing Boys: Race, Gender, and Leisure in the California Gold Rush
- 3. Manly Gambles: The Politics of Risk on the Comstock Lode, 1860-1880
- 4. Cool to the End: Public Hangings and Western Manhood Durwood Ball
- 5. White Men, Red Masks: Appropriations of “Indian” Manhood in Imagined Wests
- 6. “A Distinct and Antagonistic Race“: Constructions of Chinese Manhood in the Exclusionist Debates, 1869-1878
- 7. Nomads, Bunkies, Cross-Dressers, and Family Men: Cowboy Identity and the Gendering of Ranch Work
- 8. Domesticated Bliss: Ranchers and Their Animals
- 9. Man-Power: Montana Copper Workers, State Authority, and the (Re)drafting of Manhood during World War II
- 10. On the Road: Cassady, Kerouac, and Images of Late Western Masculinity
- 11. “All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes”: The Utilization of the Cowboy-Hero Image in Contemporary Asian-American Literature
- 12. “I Guess Your Warrior Look Doesn't Work Every Time”: Challenging Indian Masculinity in the Cinema
- 13. Tex-Sex-Mex: American Identities, Lone Stars, and the Politics of Racialized Sexuality
- Contributors
- Permissions
- Index