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Westerns and Jane Tompkins
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Westerns and Jane Tompkins
In her book, West of Everything, Jane Tompkins states that westerns have “codified and sanctioned the way several generations of men have behaved verbally toward women in American society” (59). Have westerns had an effect on how men treat women or do they just further illustrate the way that things were in times past? I want to look at how Tompkins goes about making her case to us the readers, and whether or not she chooses an effective way to do so.
Throughout the chapter Women and the Language of Men, Tompkins consistently argues that men are strong because they are silent, and that women’s words make them weak or vulnerable. To make her point she first sates a quote from a western film or novel. She then
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