At his peak, from the late 1960s through the early 1970s, Sam
Peckinpah was hailed as one of the new masters of the Western film,
while simultaneously becoming one of the most controversial
American directors of the era. In a time of great social turmoil,
Peckinpah's on-screen orchestration of physical and emotional
violence drew adamant praise for what some considered fearless
realism and vehement criticism for what others called tasteless
gore and brutal misogyny. Debate over the violence and sexual
themes of Peckinpah's films often eclipsed aesthetic appreciation
of his work. A favorite target of 1970s feminist critics, feminist
social debate, combined with the director's own combative persona
usually prevented reasoned evaluation of his films. A prevalent
auteurist view did not recognize how Peckinpah was subject to the
whims and character of an industry in which he rarely navigated
successfully. While the passage of time has muted the initial shock
value of his filmed violence, no similar reappraisal has ever dealt
with those initial misperceptions of misogyny, and looked to
reevaluate his on-screen treatment of women. Peckinpah's Women
examines the confluence of factors that worked with, and often
against, Peckinpah's cinematic voice to divine a recurring positive
theme regarding women in those films that form the heart of his
body of work: his period Westerns.
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