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Book SynopsisExplores the changing roles of women to the Western and offers new approaches to what has been a male-centred genre
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Sue Matheson Roles on the Range 1. Silent but Rowdy: Stuntwomen of the Early Frontier Cynthia J. Miller 2. Suffering Heroines on the Frontier—Melodrama and Pathos, 1914-39 Sue Matheson 3. When East Goes West: The Loss of Dramatic Agency in DeMille’s Western Women from the 1910s to the 1930s David Blanke 4. The Virginian and the Rose: Two Key Female Roles in Western Films and Comics David Huxley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 5. Freud, "The Family on the Land," and the Feminine Turn in Post-war Westerns Gaylyn Studlar 6. Clytemnestra and Electra under Western Skies Martin M. Winkler 7. ‘Never seen a woman who was more of a man’: Saloon Girls, Women Heroes, and Female Masculinity in the Western Christopher Minz 8. Gender Politics in the Revisionist Western: Interrogating the Perpetrator-Victim Binary in The Missing (Howard 2003) Fran Pheasant-Kelly Women’s Issues in Post-war, Revisionist, and Feminist Westerns 9. Trading Places—Trading Races: The Cross-Cultural Assimilation of Women in The Searchers (1956) and Unforgiven (1960) Kelly MacPhail 10. Western Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Native American Women in Wind River (2017) Robert Spindler 11. Mostly Whores with a (Very) Few Angels: Asian Women in the Western Vincent Piturro 12. "We been haunted a long time": Raped Women in Westerns Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho 13. "My body for a hand of poker": The Belle Starr Story in Its Contexts Erin Lee Mock 14. The Female Avenger in Post-9/11 Westerns Martin Holtz 15. You’ve Got Something: Female Agency in Justified Paul Zinder 16. Eastward the Women: Remapping Women's Journeys in Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman (2014) J Paul Johnson 17. Women Gotta a Gun? Iconography and Female Representation in Godless Stella Hockenhull 18. Wagon Mistress Andrew Patrick Nelson Filmography and Bibliographies 19. Women in the Western Filmography and Bibliography Camille McCutcheon Contributors
