Intimate Frontiers Sex, Gender and Culture in Old California

Name: Intimate Frontiers Sex, Gender and Culture in Old California
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ISBN: 9780826319548

ISBN-10: 0826319548

ISBN-13: 9780826319548

Edition: 1999

Authors: Albert L. Hurtado

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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.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 4/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 203
Size: 6.03" wide x 8.98" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Albert L. Hurtadois Travis Chair in Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the editor ofMajor Problems in American Indian History,second edition, and author ofIndian Survival on the California Frontier, Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California,andJohn Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier,winner of the Caughey Prize from the west Western Historical Association.



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Foreword


Preface


Introduction: The Intimate Challenges of a Multicultural Frontier



Sexuality in California's Franciscan Missions: Cultural Perceptions and Historical Realities



Customs of the Country: Mixed Marriage in Mexican California



Crossing the Borders: Sex, Gender, and the Journey to California



His Own Will and Pleasure: Miners, Morals, and the Crisis of the Marriage Market



Amelia's Body: The Limits of Female Agency in Frontier California



Intimate Frontiers


Notes


Index