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Cattle branding and the traffic in women in early twentieth-century westerns by women.
From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Date: 20050101
Author:Lamont, Victoria
"The wild cow is a female. She has healthy calves, and milk enough for them; and that is all the femininity she needs. Otherwise than that she is bovine rather than feminine." Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898) "Woe to those who refuse to pay their toll; they would be rounded up like cattle...." Emma Goldman, "The Traffic in Women" (1911)
The gun-slinging superwoman may be the most familiar way popular western conventions recently have been put to an arguably feminist use. However, this discourse is not characteristic of the earliest popular westerns ...
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