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This chapter describes how televisual Westerns re-imagine the West as a potential egalitarian garden spot fostering equality between genders and races.
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Wildermuth, M.E. (2018). Women and Television Westerns, 1954–2001. In: Feminism and the Western in Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77001-7_6
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