Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword

• Introduction: Theoretical Bears
• Section I: History
• Chapter 1. A Concise History of Self-Identifying Bears
• Chapter 2. Bear Roots
• Chapter 3. The Bear Clan: North American Totemic Mythology, Belief, and Legend
• Chapter 4. Aroused from Hibernation
• Chapter 5. Bearphernalia: An Exercise in Social Definition
• Chapter 6. Academics as Bears: Thoughts on Middle-Class Eroticization of Workingmen’s Bodies
• Section II
• Chapter 7. Male Images in the Gay Mass Media and Bear-Oriented Magazines: Analysis and Contrast
• Chapter 8. Beardom
• Chapter 9. The Natural Bears Classification System: A Classification System for Bears, and Bearlike Men Version 1.10
• Chapter 10. John Rand, Photographer: An Interview with Les Wright
• Section III: Bear Spaces
• Chapter 11. The Original Bears Mailing List: An Interview with Steve Dyer
• Chapter 12. Front Range Bears: A History
• Chapter 13. The Bear Essentials of Country Music
• Section IV: Bear Spaces: San Francisco
• Chapter 14. The Bear Hug Group: An Interview with Sam Ganczaruk
• Chapter 15. BEAR(in ital) Magazine
• Chapter 16. Bear Mecca: The Lone Star Saloon Revisited
• Section V: Bears Abroad
• Chapter 17. Bears in the Land Down Under
• Chapter 18. Kiwi Bears
• Chapter 19. Atlantic Crossing: The Development of the Eurobear
• Chapter 20. A French Bear Asks: Are Bears an American Thing?
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

About the Author

Les Wright