ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |20 pages
“Tell Me with Whom You Walk and I Will Tell You Who You Are”
Honor and Virtue in Eighteenth-Century Colonial New Mexico
chapter |27 pages
Bulls, Bears, and Dancing Boys
Race, Gender, and Leisure in the California Gold Rush
chapter |18 pages
“A Distinct and Antagonistic Race“
Constructions of Chinese Manhood in the Exclusionist Debates, 1869–1878
chapter |20 pages
Nomads, Bunkies, Cross-Dressers, and Family Men
Cowboy Identity and the Gendering of Ranch Work
chapter |26 pages
Man-Power
Montana Copper Workers, State Authority, and the (Re)drafting of Manhood during World War II
chapter |19 pages
“All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes”
The Utilization of the Cowboy-Hero Image in Contemporary Asian-American Literature
chapter |23 pages
“I Guess Your Warrior Look Doesn't Work Every Time”
Challenging Indian Masculinity in the Cinema
chapter |17 pages
Tex-Sex-Mex
American Identities, Lone Stars, and the Politics of Racialized Sexuality
