This book works to complicate and push against common arguments that the Western from its inception is an anti-feminist genre. By focusing on representations of

Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of au

American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national

In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As t

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective of transnational feminist practices and methodo