Westerns : a women's history / Victoria Lamont.
Westerns : a women's history / Victoria Lamont.
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Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Call Numbers
G 2017/5834
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Western violence and the limits of sentimental power -- Domestic politics and cattle rustling -- Women's westerns and the myth of the pseudonym -- Why Mourning Dove wrote a Western -- Cattle branding and the traffic in women -- The masculinization of the Western.
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Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
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Place of Publication
Nebraska
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
"At 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. Westerns: A Women's History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns who were active during the late nineteenth and early...
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Westerns : a women's history / Victoria Lamont.
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Notes
General note
Postwestern horizons
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-181) and index.
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©2016
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G 2017/5834
Record Identifier
74VKVgy7AO7O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgy7AO7O
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ISBN
0803237626
9780803237629
DDC
813.087409
MMS ID
991024148685402626
