The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West

Susan Bernardin is Director of the School of Language, Culture, and Society at Oregon State University in Corvallis. A specialist in Indigenous Literary and Visual Studies as well as Gender and the American West, she has published widely on foundational and contemporary Native authors as well as Indigenous mixed-media, visual arts, and comics.

Part 1: Genealogies; 1. Mountains and Valleys of Difference: Traces of Language on the Land; 2. Re-inscribing a Woman Writer into the West: Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda and ; the Laterality of Legend; ; 3. Drifting Across Lines in the Sand: Unsettled Records and the Restoration of ; Cultural Memories in Indigenous California; ; 4. More than One Story: Gender, Region, and the American West in Japanese American Literature; 5. Yosemite Climbing Films and the Regeneration of White Masculinity in the American West; 6. Ivan Doig’s "Geography of Risk" and Legacies of Selfhood in Contemporary White Western Men’s Memoir; 7. The Popular Western in Print: A Feminist Genealogy; 8. The Persistence of Western Women Writers; 9. Standpoint, Situated Knowledge, Feminist Wests; Part 2: Bodies; 10. "That’s history. That’s truth. I Seen It Myself": A Native American Slave Narrative; ; 11. Disturbing the Peace: Genre, Gender, Jurisdiction, and Justice in the Short Fiction of Ruth Muskrat Bronson; 12. Native Mother, Daughter, and Granddaughter: The Murder of Savanna Greywind and the Abduction of Haisley Jo Greywind; 13. Popular Indigenous Women Performers, Wild West Scenarios, and Relations of Looking; 14. The Absent Native Body in Film and its Return; 15. Extractive Masculinity: The Western’s Precarious Male Bodies in the ; Anthropocene; ; 16. Blood Tests in the Toxic Wests: Unsettling Settler Masculinities in John Carpenter’s The Thing; 17. The Very Borderland of Our Act": The Queer West, Historical Violence, and the Intersectional Future; 18. Genders and Sexualities Across the Asian North American West; Part 3: Movements; 19. "Incalculable Evils": Policing Gender, Race, and the Family in the US West; 20. Writing the Rails in Edith Eaton’s West ; 21. Black Women Writers Reclaiming Western Literature: Regionalism and ; Historical Fiction in the 1990s; ; 22. What about the Ingalls? What about La Casa de la Pradera?: The Reception of Little House on the Prairie in Spain; 23. Gender and the Global West: Movements, Belonging, Exclusions; 24. In-Between Kumeyaay and Brooklyn: Mapping Queer Indigenous Memory, ; Affect, and Futurity in Tommy Pico’s IRL; ; 25. Fierce Mariposa Warriors; 26. Queer Indigenous Feminism: Unsettling ‘Gender’ as a Decolonizing Methodology ; Part 4: Lands; 27. The Alternative Archive and Gendered Dispossession; 28. Reshaping Texas: Kimberly Garza’s Short Fiction and the Gulf of Mexico; 29. Colonialism and Gendered Violence in the Grassy, Bloody West; 30. "Ghastly Whiteness": Ecofascism and Indigenous Ecofeminism on Cogewea’s Frontier; 31. A Crowded Wilderness: Women, Homemaking, and Federal Bureaucracies in the American Southwest, 1920-1968; 32. What Is a Feminist Landscape? A Vocabulary for Re-visioning Place in the U.S. West; 33. Gesturing Towards the Sacred: Los Angeles, Queer Lands and Bodies in Hector Silva’s ‘Los Hijos de Doña Rita" ; 34. "Land Back" Beyond Repatriation: Restoring Indigenous Land Relationships; ;