Norris W. Yates presents here a number of women writers  who have been overlooked in studies of Western formula fiction,  arguing that their work constitutes a subgenre of the western  novel. Like women writers of serious fiction, they appealed to the  prejudices of the mass market on a superficial level but presented  subtexts that contradicted or subverted those prejudices.    Writers such as B. M. Bower, Caroline Lockhart, Vingie E. Roe, Honor?  Willsie Morrow, and Katharine Newlin Burt drew more on the conventions  of the domestic novel than those of the dime novel Western. They  deemphasized violence, especially gunplay, and portrayed active rather  than passive heroines. They frequently manipulated the traditional  ending, allowing the heroine to retain a portion of her premarital  individuality and independence. In these ways the writers supported  and yet subverted Western-style images of ideal femininity and male  hegemony.    Gender and Genre will appeal to fans of the western novel as well as  scholars in American literature and women's studies.

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