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

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