{"product_id":"westerns-a-womens-history-paperback-softback-9781496238955","title":"Westerns; A Women's History (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496238955","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWesterns\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Women's History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVictoria Lamont (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496238955\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e214 pages, 5 illustrations, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.28 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWesterns\u003c\/i\u003e does far more than add women and stir; it is a tremendous gift to scholarship, restoring women’s contributions to American literary history and laying a more accurate and inclusive foundation for future work.”-Jennifer S. Tuttle, \u003ci\u003eTulsa Studies in Women’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Compelling. . . . A valuable read for all those interested in the intersections of gender and culture in early twentieth century America.\"-\u003ci\u003eMichigan Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWesterns: A Women's History\u003c\/i\u003e is a readable excursion into female authors, their experiences, and their perspectives, within an important genre. In unmasking and then undoing female erasure from the beginnings of the American Western novel, Lamont makes important points and deftly defends them. Her book is enjoyable and significant.\"-Thomas E. Simmons, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWesterns: A Women’s History\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a whole new set of woman authors and texts to be included in the study and teaching of Western American literature as well as a new and compelling origin narrative of the Western literary genre.\"-Randi Tanglen, \u003ci\u003eEnglish: Journal of the English Association\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"In recovering legacies among western women writers, Lamont herself achieves major stature as a feminist scholar of the West.\"-Cathryn Halverson, \u003ci\u003eWestern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"The outsize presence of the West in the American cultural imaginary persists. Lamont, with verve and compelling insight, shows how women have always been a part of this storytelling realm.\"-Annette Koh, \u003ci\u003eAncillary Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWesterns\u003c\/i\u003e is recommended reading not only for fans of classic Westerns and of feminist literary recovery, but indeed for all readers interested in the history of the American West and the origins of contemporary feminisms.\"-Emma Morgan-Thorp, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"For more than a century, the mythic western cowboy has been consistently hypermasculine. Victoria Lamont's \u003ci\u003eWesterns: A Women's History\u003c\/i\u003e prods the boundaries of this image while debunking the myth that literary westerns were consistently written by men.\"-Cynthia Culver Prescott, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Lamont's work rests upon an impressive amount of archival work in little-known ephemera. . . . [\u003ci\u003eWesterns\u003c\/i\u003e] introduces a new group of works that may be taught on courses focused on the West or inserted into other contexts and critical discussions, causing us to reorganize, question, and revise our existing frameworks.\"-Nicole Tonkovich, \u003ci\u003eLegacy\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWesterns: A Women's History\u003c\/i\u003e resurrects the work of well-known western women authors during an era when their stories of strong female characters in the frontier West enjoyed popular readership.\"-Renee M. Laegreid, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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 Newhall’s pulp serial character, Sheriff Minnie, comes to the rescue of a steady stream of defenseless female victims. B. M. Bower, Katharine Newlin Burt, and Frances McElrath use cattle branding as a metaphor for their feminist critiques of patriarchy. In addition to recovering the work of these and other women authors of popular westerns, Lamont uses original archival analysis of the western-fiction publishing scene to overturn the long-standing myth of the western as a male-dominated genre.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744954904856,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/westerns-a-womens-history-paperback-softback-9781496238955","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}