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Describes how pro-feminist Westerns of the Cold War react to reactivation of gendered hierarchies by the security state by insisting women have the right to agency in private and domestic realms.
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Wildermuth, M.E. (2018). Women and Western Films in the Cold War. In: Feminism and the Western in Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77001-7_4
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