{"product_id":"westerns-victoria-lamont-9781496238955","title":"Westerns: A Women's History","description":"At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 women characters at the center of their 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 women 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria Lamont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496238958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496238955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Victoria Lamont","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45331915243775,"sku":"9781496238955","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_58c8cbe2-7770-4b42-a613-9dc9a399865e.jpg?v=1713971228","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/westerns-victoria-lamont-9781496238955","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}