{"product_id":"westerns-9781496238955","title":"Westerns","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAt every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. \u003ci\u003eWesterns: A Women’s History\u003c\/i\u003e debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns who were active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the western genre as we now know it emerged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Victoria Lamont offers detailed studies of some of the many women who helped shape the western. Their novels bear the classic hallmarks of the western—cowboys, schoolmarms, gun violence, lynchings, cattle branding—while also placing female characters at the center of their western adventures and improvising with western conventions in surprising and ingenious ways. In Emma Ghent Curtis’s \u003ci\u003eThe Administratrix\u003c\/i\u003e a widow disguises herself as a cowboy and infiltrates the cowboy gang responsible for lynching her husband. Muriel N\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885889565015,"sku":"9781496238955","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496238955.jpg?v=1722538059","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/westerns-9781496238955","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}