Wrangling women: humor and gender in the American west
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Main Author: McAndrews, Kristin M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Reno University of Nevada Press c2006
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-166) and index
Introduction : cowgirls -- subversive implications -- - 1 - Tourism, gender, and images of the American West -- - 2 - A woman's code of the west -- - 3 - Tools of the trade : humor and horse sense -- - 4 - "Nothing to lose" : a horsewoman and a tall tale -- - Epilogue : jumping fences
"In Winthrop, Washington, a small mountain community that has reinvented itself as a western theme town, a group of women who work as ranchers, trail guides, horse trainers, and packers have found themselves in a contradictory environment where they have to preserve gender stereotypes for the sake of the tourist-based economy yet must assume the same authority and expertise as their male counterparts. How these "wrangling women" accomplish this challenging balancing act is a fascinating study of women's subversion and manipulation of humor, language, and gender stereotypes in the modern West."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 175 p.)
ISBN:0874176875
9780874176872

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