Download or read book Women and Western American Literature written by Helen Winter Stauffer and published by Whitston Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays about women and the West is organized under the following themes: "Shaping the Western Frontier: Women in History," "From Fact to Fiction: Myth as Filter," "Images in Transition and Conflict," and "Shaping Imaginative Frontiers." The themes are connected by the reappraisal of the impact of Western experience on American thought, and attitudes toward family, community, and the land. In exploring the roles and images of women in Western American tradition, the authors find that women's perceptions of values counter male myths of the West. ISBN 0-87875-229-3.