Archive: November 2016

  • The Old Corral: Howdy Ma'am - Women in Westerns

    The West of the Western movie has always been a masculine place. Looking at it impartially, it's a bit odd because women have been associated with nature and freedom, while men have been the conventional law and order types. So we might imagine that men would be more urban creatures, setting up businesses and building churches, while women would relate to the wide open spaces of the frontier. But the reverse is true.In the Western myth women are the civilizers. The men in Westerns...

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