Feminism and the Western in Film and Television

Mark E. Wildermuth is Dunagan Professor of English at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA. His previous publications include Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema; Print, Chaos and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture; and Gender, Science Fiction Television, and the American Security State: 1958-Present.

1. Introduction: Is the Western an Inherently Anti-feminist Genre?.- 2. Women Professionals in 1930's Film Westerns in the Context of the Progressive Age and the New Deal Gender Politics.- 3. Women and Westerns in the Films of the 1940s.- 4. Women and Western Films in the Cold War.- 5. After the Cold War: From the 1990's Interregnum to 9/11.- 6. Women and Television Westerns, 1954-2001.- 7. Conclusion: Some Reflections on Women, Violence and Westerns.