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Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California (Histories of the American Frontier)
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by Albert L. Hurtado, William Cronon, Howard R. Lamar, and Martin Ridge
Sales Rank: 109098
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Cover Type: Paperback with 203 pages
Published by: University of New Mexico Press April 1, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0826319548
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0826319548
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Book Description
This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the History of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags—those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States—Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining camps, on overland trails and sea journeys, and in San Francisco. In these settings Hurtado explores courtship, marriage, reproduction, and family life as a way to understand how men and women—whether Native American, Anglo American, Hispanic, Chinese, or of mixed blood—fit into or reshaped the roles and identities set by their race and gender.
Hurtado introduces two themes in delineating his intimate frontiers. One was a libertine California, and some of its delights were heartily described early in the 1850s: “[Gold] dust was plentier than pleasure, pleasure more enticing than virtue. Fortune was the horse, youth in the saddle, dissipation the track, and desire the spur.” Not all the times were good or giddy, and in the tragedy of a teenage domestic who died in a botched abortion or a brutalized Indian lady we see the seamy underside of gender relations on the frontier. The other theme explored is the reaction of citizens who abhorred the loss of moral standards and sought to suppress excess. Their efforts included imposing all the stabilizing customs of whichever society dominated California—during the Hispanic period,arranged marriages and concern for family honor were the norm; among the Anglos, laws regulated prostitution,missionaries railed against vices, and “proper” women were brought in to help “civilize” the frontier.
Explores the role of sex and gender on California’s multi-cultural frontier under the influences of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.
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This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the History of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags - those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States - Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining camps, on overland trails and sea journeys, and in San Francisco. In these settings Hurtado explores courtship, marriage, reproduction, and family life as a way to understand how men and women - whether Native American, Anglo American, Hispanic, Chinese, or of mixed blood - fit into or reshaped the roles and identities set by their race and gender.
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