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QUEER COWBOYS

Chris Packard
QUEER COWBOYS:
And Other Erotic Male Friendships In 19th Century American Literature
Chris Packard

Queer Cowboys exposes, through books by legendary Western writers such as Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, and Owen Wister, how same-sex intimacy and homoerotic admiration were key aspects of Westerns well before Brokeback Mountain’s 1960’s West. Packard introduces readers to the male-only clubs of journalists, cowboys, miners, Indians, and vaqueros who defined themselves by excluding women and the cloying ills of domesticity and recovers a forgotten culture of exclusively masculine, sometimes erotic, and often intimate camaraderie in the fiction, photographs, and theatrical performances of the 1800’s Wild West.
160 pages, £8.95 paperback

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SKU SKU17665

Author Chris Packard

Mi price: £8.95 (€11.10)