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;...

For decades, women's history has been one of the most dynamic fields in all of American history. More recently, the study of manhood has drawn the attention of scholars, students, and general readers. Despite the obvious intersections of female and male gender roles, the nineteenth-century doctrine of -separate spheres- has dominated historical inquiry. The shared experiences and complementary lives of men and women have rarely been considered. This important new anthology, reflecting recent trends in the history of men and women, calls for the reintegration of the study of gender.

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