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From Custer and Geronimo to John Wayne and the Marlboro Man, American notions of masculinity have been deeply interwoven with our image of the West. There is more to the relationship between manhood and the frontier than a simple tale of cowboys and Indians, ruggedness and in Across the Great Divide historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways in which this experience has been represented in films, popular music, dimestore novels and folklore. Ramon Gutierrez ( When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away ) describes the culture of machismo in early New...

From Custer and Geronimo to John Wayne and the Marlboro Man, American notions of masculinity have been deeply interwoven with our image of the West. There is more to the relationship between manhood and the frontier than a simple tale of cowboys and Indians, ruggedness and in Across the Great Divide historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways in which this experience has been represented in films, popular music, dimestore novels and folklore. Ramon Gutierrez (When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away) describes the culture of machismo in early New Mexico;...

I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun. So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, fields, and mines while their compatriots fought in the battlefields of Europe and on the bloody beaches of the Pacific. The male experience of working and living in wartime America is rarely examined, but the story of men like these provides a crucial counter-narrative to the national story of Rosie the Riveter and GI Joe that dominates scholarly and...