{"product_id":"westerns-a-womens-history-paperback","title":"Westerns: A Women's History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictoria Lamont\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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. \u003cem\u003eWesterns: A Women's History\u003c\/em\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003eThe Administratrix\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVictoria Lamont\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of English at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. Bower\u003c\/em\u003e (Bison Books, 2024) and the coauthor of \u003cem\u003eJudith Merril: A Critical Study\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Lamont\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. Bower\u003c\/i\u003e (Bison Books, 2024) and the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eJudith Merril: A Critical Study\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753029566752,"sku":"9781496238955","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a440c150d9805700b5f924a8b85b73df.webp?v=1780010592","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/westerns-a-womens-history-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}