Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West

This is the first major collection to remap the American West though the intersectional lens of gender and sexuality, especially in relation to race and Indigeneity. Organized through several interrelated key concepts, The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West addresses gender and sexuality from and across diverse and divergent methodologies. Comprising 34 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into four parts:GenealogiesBodies MovementsLandsThe volume features leading and newer scholars whose essays connect interdisciplinary fields including Indigenous Studies, Latinx and Asian American Studies, Western American Studies, and Queer, Feminist, and Gender Studies. Through innovative methodologies and reclaimed archives of knowledge, contributors model fresh frameworks for thinking about relations of power and place, gender and genre, settler colonization and decolonial resistance. Even as they reckon with the ongoing gendered and racialized violence at the core of the American West, contributors forge new lexicons for imagining alternative Western futures. This pathbreaking collection will be invaluable to scholars and students studying the origins, myths, histories, and legacies of the American West. This is a foundational collection that will become invaluable to scholars and students across a range of disciplines including Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Latinx Studies.

"The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West brings together diverse voices and overlooked sources to provide nuanced gendered and queer perspectives on settler colonialism and the many cultures that occupy the western United States."Cynthia C. Prescott, author of Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory

Susan Bernardin is Director of the School of Language, Culture, and Society at Oregon State University in Corvallis. A specialist in Indigenous Literary and Visual Studies as well as Gender and the American West, she has published widely on foundational and contemporary Native authors as well as Indigenous mixed-media, visual arts, and comics.