Description: Explores the role of sex and gender on California's multi-cultural frontier under the influences of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.
Brief description: Albert L. Hurtado is the Travis Professor of Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of award-winning studies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century California.
Review Quotes: "A must-read for scholars of women and gender in the West and for Borderlanders. Albert L. Hurtado's Intimate Frontiers is a fast-paced yet dense study, filled with interesting anecdotes, memorable characters, and fascinating gender analysis. Its short length, simultaneously topical and chronological chapters, and interesting use of gender theory make it ideal for classroom use."-- "New Mexico Historical Review"