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This chapter shows how certain pro-feminist Westerns of the 1930s resist the sexist reaction against first-wave feminism by representing female protagonists who revive gender ideology inherited from the earlier Progressive era.
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Wildermuth, M.E. (2018). Women Professionals in 1930s’ Film: Westerns in the Context of the Progressive Age and the New Deal Gender Politics. In: Feminism and the Western in Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77001-7_2
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