New Fathers, Old Conflicts? Patriarchal Politics in 3:10 to Yuma, Don’t Come Knocking, and Atmen
“Is emotional capacity, as figured by film, an entity of fixed dimension, so that if men are represented as more caring, women must be represented as caring less?”


Wendy Chapman Peek teaches in the English Department at Stonehill College, where she also offers courses in the Cinema Studies program. Her publications include "The Romance of Competence: Rethinking Masculinity in the Western" in the Journal of Popular Film and Television; "Cherchez la Femme: The Searchers, Vertigo, and Masculinity in Post-Kinsey America" in the Journal of American Culture. She also recently published a piece on Ovid's Metamorphoses in a collection of articles on teaching Ovid.





