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The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West

Edited By Susan Bernardin Copyright 2022
506 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

506 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

506 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This is the first major collection to remap the American West though the intersectional lens of gender and sexuality, especially in relation to race and Indigeneity. Organized through several interrelated key concepts, The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West addresses gender and sexuality from and across diverse and divergent methodologies. Comprising 34 chapters by a team of... Read more

Part 1: Genealogies

  1. Mountains and Valleys of Difference: Traces of Language on the Land

    2. Margaret Noodin

  2. Re-inscribing a Woman Writer into the West: Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda and

    3. the Laterality of Legend

    Anna M. Nogar

  3. Drifting Across Lines in the Sand: Unsettled Records and the Restoration of

    4. Cultural Memories in Indigenous California

    Luhui Whitebear

  4. More than One Story: Gender, Region, and the American West in Japanese American Literature

    5. Florence D. Amamoto

  5. Yosemite Climbing Films and the Regeneration of White Masculinity in the American West

    6. Peter L. Bayers

  6. Ivan Doig’s "Geography of Risk" and Legacies of Selfhood in Contemporary White Western Men’s Memoir

    7. Linda Karell

  7. The Popular Western in Print: A Feminist Genealogy

    8. Victoria Lamont

  8. The Persistence of Western Women Writers

    9. Cathryn Halverson

  9. Standpoint, Situated Knowledge, Feminist Wests

    10. Krista Comer

    Part 2: Bodies

  10. "That’s history. That’s truth. I Seen It Myself": A Native American Slave Narrative

    11. Jean Pfaelzer

  11. Disturbing the Peace: Genre, Gender, Jurisdiction, and Justice in the Short Fiction of Ruth Muskrat Bronson

    12. Kirby Brown

  12. Native Mother, Daughter, and Granddaughter: The Murder of Savanna Greywind and the Abduction of Haisley Jo Greywind

    13. Liza Black

  13. Popular Indigenous Women Performers, Wild West Scenarios, and Relations of Looking

    14. Christine Bold

  14. The Absent Native Body in Film and its Return

    15. Jacob Floyd

  15. Extractive Masculinity: The Western’s Precarious Male Bodies in the

    16. Anthropocene

    Sylvan Goldberg

  16. Blood Tests in the Toxic Wests: Unsettling Settler Masculinities in John Carpenter’s The Thing

    17. Joshua T. Anderson

  17. The Very Borderland of Our Act": The Queer West, Historical Violence, and the Intersectional Future

    18. William R. Handley

  18. Genders and Sexualities Across the Asian North American West

    19. Ryan Wander

    Part 3: Movements

  19. "Incalculable Evils": Policing Gender, Race, and the Family in the US West

    20. Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue

  20. Writing the Rails in Edith Eaton’s West

    21. Jennifer S. Tuttle

  21. Black Women Writers Reclaiming Western Literature: Regionalism and

    22. Historical Fiction in the 1990s

    Kalenda Eaton

  22. What about the Ingalls? What about La Casa de la Pradera?: The Reception of Little House on the Prairie in Spain

    23. Amaia Ibarraran

  23. Gender and the Global West: Movements, Belonging, Exclusions

Susan Kollin

  1. In-Between Kumeyaay and Brooklyn: Mapping Queer Indigenous Memory,

    2. Affect, and Futurity in Tommy Pico’s IRL

    Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne

  2. Fierce Mariposa Warriors

    3. Daniel Enrique Pérez

  3. Queer Indigenous Feminism: Unsettling ‘Gender’ as a Decolonizing Methodology

Alicia Carroll

Part 4: Lands

27. The Alternative Archive and Gendered Dispossession

Karen R. Roybal

28. Reshaping Texas: Kimberly Garza’s Short Fiction and the Gulf of Mexico

T. Jackie Cuevas

29. Colonialism and Gendered Violence in the Grassy, Bloody West

Amy T. Hamilton

30. "Ghastly Whiteness": Ecofascism and Indigenous Ecofeminism on Cogewea’s Frontier

April Anson

31. A Crowded Wilderness: Women, Homemaking, and Federal Bureaucracies in the American Southwest, 1920-1968

Nancy Cook

32. What Is a Feminist Landscape? A Vocabulary for Re-visioning Place in the U.S. West

Audrey Goodman

33. Gesturing Towards the Sacred: Los Angeles, Queer Lands and Bodies in Hector Silva’s ‘Los Hijos de Doña Rita"

Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr.

34. "Land Back" Beyond Repatriation: Restoring Indigenous Land Relationships

Lindsey Schneider

Biography

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.

"The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West brings together diverse voices and overlooked sources to provide nuanced gendered and queer perspectives on settler colonialism and the many cultures that occupy the western United States."

Cynthia C. Prescott, author of Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory

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