Women in the Western

Book Overview

In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Feminine charts these significant shifts in the Western's transmission of gender values and expectations and aims to expand the critical arena in which Western film is situated by acknowledging the importance of women in this genre.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474444148
• ISBN13: 9781474444149
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"