Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by Chris Packard

Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Author: Chris Packard
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2006-03-01
ISBN: 1403975973
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Book Review: Not quite the ticket
Summary: 3 Stars

An intersting little anthology of the queer and not so queer which suffers from too much hindsight on occasion. Sure there were male-to-male relationships between these types but they do not necessarily constitute 'gay' in our terms. Some individuals just want to have too much neatly in their corner and claim the past too. I read this with interest but was neither convinced or persuaded that all is what it seems according to this author.

It is cashing in on the 'virility' factor assoicated with cowboys.

I suggest you reading this book in tandem with "Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth Century Caribbean"

Summary of Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Brokeback Mountain exploded the myth of the American cowboy as a tough, gruff, and grizzled loner. 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's 1960's West, and well before the word "homosexual" was even invented. Chris Packard introduces readers to the males-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.

Brokeback Mountain exploded the myth of the American cowboy as a tough, gruff, and grizzled loner. 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's 1960's West, and well before the word "homosexual" was even invented. Chris Packard introduces readers to the males-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.

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