Using original archival analysis, Westerns: A Women’s History provides a revisionist account of the western genre, proving women writers of popular westerns were instrumental in the formation of the genre and used it to subtly critique patriarchy.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Western Violence and the Limits of Sentimental Power 2. Domestic Politics and Cattle Rustling 3. Women’s Westerns and the Myth of the Pseudonym 4. Why Mourning Dove Wrote a Western 5. Cattle Branding and the Traffic in Women 6. The Masculinization of the Western Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index