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Southwestern Historical Quarterly October gotten and folded into the increasingly heteronormative telling of western stories. Boag explores the ways in which frontier mythologists, sexologists, the popular press, and even historians straightened up a past that was anything but. In these final chapters, readers learn of the convergence of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier myth and the progressive narrative with sexologists' pathologizing of cross-dressing and homosexuality. Locating what they perceived to be increasing "sexual inversion" in the East, with modernity and urbanization, sexologists allied themselves with a Turnerian reading of the American past that erased it from the West. Boag's sources range from anthropological studies and medical papers to the mass-circulation press. Newspaper accounts, critically read and thoroughly mined, serve as the bulk of his source material. As all students of the West know, frontier myths and frontier lives often blended together as easily as a child on an overland wagon train could pick up his favorite dime novel. Boag explores the places where real lives and popular culture were buttoned tightly together, often obscuring same-sex attraction and transgendered identities. While the structure of the text requires some repetition and students of the construction of whiteness and the transformations of
Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Texas State Historical Association
Published: Sep 18, 2013
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