Women in the Western

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Women in the Western is written by Matheson Sue Matheson and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474444164 (ISBN 10) and 9781474444163 (ISBN 13).

In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Feminine charts these significant shifts in the Western's transmission of gender values and expectations and aims to expand the critical arena in which Western film is situated by acknowledging the importance of women in this genre.