Women in Westerns Women’s roles in western movies are very diversified. Although the roles are very different from each other, they are very stereotypical. Almost all women characters in western movies play one of the following: a mother, school teacher, prostitute, or an outlaw. Through comparing three western movies, all ranging in different eras from 1932 to 1994, it is clearly shown that whether it’s the loving mother or town prostitute, women characters often play …showed first 75 words of 1996 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1996 total…three movies, women are depicted very differently. Even though the films were created years apart, there is one thing that they all have in common. Women are important support characters in western movies. They bring in a different flavor into the film no matter what type of character they are represented as. Women should not be overlooked as minor background characters because if females were not present, the western would not be complete. Bibliography none