Women in the Western

Half Title
Dedication
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One Roles on the Range
	1.  Silent but Rowdy: Stuntwomen of the Early Frontier
	2.  Suffering Heroines on the Frontier—Melodrama and Pathos, 1914–39
	3.  When East Goes West: The Loss of Dramatic Agency in DeMille’s Western Women from the 1910s to the 1930s
	4.  The Virginian and the Rose: Two Key Female Roles in Western Films and Comics
	5.  Freud, “The Family on the Land,” and the Feminine Turn in Post-war Westerns
	6.  Clytemnestra and Electra under Western Skies
	7.  “Never seen a woman who was more of a man”: Saloon Girls, Women Heroes, and Female Masculinity in the Western
	8.  Gender Politics in the Revisionist Western: Interrogating the Perpetrator–Victim Binary in The Missing (Howard 2003)
Part Two Women’s Issues in Post-War, Revisionist, and Feminist Westerns
	9.  Trading Places—Trading Races: The Cross-Cultural Assimilation of Women in The Searchers (1956) and The Unforgiven (1960)
	10.  Western Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Native American Women in Wind River (2017)
	11.  Mostly Whores with a (Very) Few Angels: Asian Women in the Western
	12.  “We been haunted a long time”—Raped Women in Westerns
	13.  “My body for a hand of poker”: The Belle Starr Story in Its Contexts
	14.  The Female Avenger in Post-9/11 Westerns
	15.  You’ve Got Something: Female Agency in Justified
	16.  Eastward the Women: Remapping Women’s Journeys in Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman (2014)
	17.  Women Gotta Gun? Iconography and Female Representation in Godless
	18.  Wagon Mistress
Part Three Filmography and Bibliographies
	19.  Women in the Western Filmography and Bibliography
Contributors
Index