Protocols of Violence : Hunters, the Wife of Bath, and Pam Houston's 'Cowboys Are My Weakness'
- Author / Editor
- Dwyer, June.
Protocols of Violence : Hunters, the Wife of Bath, and Pam Houston's 'Cowboys Are My Weakness'
- Published
- Studies in Short Fiction 35: 307-18, 1998.
- Description
- Two possible versions of women's attitudes toward violence appear in WBPT: WBT idealizes women as a civilizing force working to curb male violence; WBP portrays a woman who uses violence when other means of control fail. Both constructs of female violence can be found in Pam Houston's collection of short stories.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.