ABSTRACT
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 concepts, The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West addresses gender and sexuality from and across diverse and divergent methodologies. Comprising 35 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into 4 parts:
Genealogies
Bodies
Movements
Lands
The volume features leading and newer scholars whose essays connect interdisciplinary fields including Indigenous Studies, Latinx and Asian American Studies, western American Studies, and Queer and Gender Studies. Through innovative methodologies and reclaimed archives of knowledge, contributors model fresh frameworks for thinking about relations of power and place, gender and genre, and settler colonization and decolonial resistance. This pathbreaking collection will be invaluable to scholars and students studying the origins, myths, histories, and legacies of the American West. Even as they reckon with the ongoing gendered and racialized violence at the core of the American West, contributors forge new lexicons for imagining alternative Western futures.
This is a foundational collection that will become invaluable to scholars and students studying modernism and queer theory across a range of disciplines including Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Indigenous Studies and Latinx Studies.
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; ;
