Women and Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in AmericaRoutledge, 2015 M05 20 - 349 páginas This timely and provocative book looks at contemporary American women and their experiences with guns. Scrupulously balanced, this new paperback edition features a new appendix containing a wealth of primary source documents that help illuminate both the dangers and attractions of guns in our society. |
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... debates about guns and violence. It aspires to give voice to citizens who hold divergent political opinions and, in this way, to find out something about life in the country as it is perceived and interpreted by people who call ...
... debates about guns and violence. It aspires to give voice to citizens who hold divergent political opinions and, in this way, to find out something about life in the country as it is perceived and interpreted by people who call ...
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... debates that repeatedly flared and dimmed through the 1990s. Often these public debates featured women as women, for instance, as bereaved mothers or wives who could advocate effectively for stricter gun-control laws, or as potential ...
... debates that repeatedly flared and dimmed through the 1990s. Often these public debates featured women as women, for instance, as bereaved mothers or wives who could advocate effectively for stricter gun-control laws, or as potential ...
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... debates. For this reason, I have chosen to focus on citizens whose engagement with guns is variously recreational, peripheral, or terribly accidental, and whose engagement with contemporary debates about guns is therefore usually ...
... debates. For this reason, I have chosen to focus on citizens whose engagement with guns is variously recreational, peripheral, or terribly accidental, and whose engagement with contemporary debates about guns is therefore usually ...
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... debates as team sports. Statistics and personal stories are all mustered to establish which of these images of the nation is more accurate and thereby determine what actions should be taken, what legislation passed, to improve things ...
... debates as team sports. Statistics and personal stories are all mustered to establish which of these images of the nation is more accurate and thereby determine what actions should be taken, what legislation passed, to improve things ...
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... debates. By the 1990s, of course, “feminist,” “environmentalist,” and “multicultural” critiques of this kind had roused a spirited and practiced conservative opposition. In the pivotal years of 1994 and 1995, especially, the power of ...
... debates. By the 1990s, of course, “feminist,” “environmentalist,” and “multicultural” critiques of this kind had roused a spirited and practiced conservative opposition. In the pivotal years of 1994 and 1995, especially, the power of ...
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Fields Near Home | |
Combat by Story and Statistics | |
Looking for the Bad Guys | |
Gun Games and Homegrown Rebellion | |
In the Cities on the Edge | |
Conclusion | |
Authors Note to Appendix | |
Primary Source Documents | |
Index | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Women and Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America: Politics ... Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
Women & Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
Women & Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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