Lamont, Victoria,

Westerns : a women's history / Victoria Lamont. - Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource - Postwestern horizons .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9780803290310 9780803290334 9780803237629

JSTOR

2016937696


Western stories--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

PS374 / .W478 2016 PS374