![]() ![]() However, Ada is still unable to conceive a child. ![]() She advises Ada to seek out another partner, pointing her in the direction of an older male friend who shows her that sexual gratification isn't only for men. When Ada struggles to become pregnant, her mother, a midwife to whom she is apprenticed, tells her daughter that she may not be the cause of her own barren state. Written by LA-born, Brooklyn-based author Anna North, Outlawed is set in 1894 and tells the story of Ada, a young woman expected to follow a specific path by marrying young and, God willing, birthing many healthy children. Outlawed flips the script on this theme entirely, providing us with a fresh take on outlaw cowboy mythology that switches out the straight white male narrative for, well, almost everything else. In Outlawed, Anna North reimagines the Western epic as a feminist tale of freedom, new family and new beginnings.Ī common theme of the countless Western books and movies of the last century has been a romanticization of heroism that flourishes with masculine courage and strength. ![]()
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