Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-168) and index.
Contents:
The queer afterlife of Billy Budd -- Going to meet the man in Abu Ghraib -- The global taste for queer -- You can have my brown body and eat it, too! -- Gay cowboys close to home.
Summary:
Facuses on three figures with elusive queer histories--the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy--and shows how each has been desired for their heoric masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for U.S. expansion.
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