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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... didn't teach a simple “pro-gun” or “anti-gun” lesson, stories that defied the established categories, I felt that I came closest to watching a citizen at work. We live in a vast, combative democracy that encourages people to take sides ...
... didn't teach a simple “pro-gun” or “anti-gun” lesson, stories that defied the established categories, I felt that I came closest to watching a citizen at work. We live in a vast, combative democracy that encourages people to take sides ...
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... didn't realize he was that bad because I'd been working around the house. Then I looked at him and I realized that there was nothing in his brain; there weren't two brain cells that were functioning together, and I had a madman on my ...
... didn't realize he was that bad because I'd been working around the house. Then I looked at him and I realized that there was nothing in his brain; there weren't two brain cells that were functioning together, and I had a madman on my ...
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... didn't make her hate guns—after all, when this shotgun fired up through the ceiling, her children were standing somewhere on the second floor—she replied: The gun didn't do it. He did. I think I'm fairly smart and that gun was sitting ...
... didn't make her hate guns—after all, when this shotgun fired up through the ceiling, her children were standing somewhere on the second floor—she replied: The gun didn't do it. He did. I think I'm fairly smart and that gun was sitting ...
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... didn't know was that Maribeth ... the two pop pop's I heard was John shooting Maribeth. He shot her in the head. Maribeth had just buzzed Sue to tell her she had a phone call, so Sue was in the process of getting up from her desk to ...
... didn't know was that Maribeth ... the two pop pop's I heard was John shooting Maribeth. He shot her in the head. Maribeth had just buzzed Sue to tell her she had a phone call, so Sue was in the process of getting up from her desk to ...
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... didn't bother me; but it has bothered me even before I got shot.... Hunting is unnecessary. We don't hunt because we need the meat, but because it's a manly thing: it's a macho thing. Men get together and go into the woods. They gang up ...
... didn't bother me; but it has bothered me even before I got shot.... Hunting is unnecessary. We don't hunt because we need the meat, but because it's a manly thing: it's a macho thing. Men get together and go into the woods. They gang up ...
Contenido
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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