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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... laws, and outbreaks of rogue violence punctuated the decade. The most unsettling and widely publicized acts of violence ... law-abiding citizens. A few straddled the political divides and offered hybrid proposals. And in the course of ...
... laws, and outbreaks of rogue violence punctuated the decade. The most unsettling and widely publicized acts of violence ... law-abiding citizens. A few straddled the political divides and offered hybrid proposals. And in the course of ...
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... law-abiding citizens (those with no criminal record) the right to purchase and carry guns concealed on their person in public, largely unhindered by local licensing requirements. In Texas George W. Bush, son of the former president ...
... law-abiding citizens (those with no criminal record) the right to purchase and carry guns concealed on their person in public, largely unhindered by local licensing requirements. In Texas George W. Bush, son of the former president ...
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... laws were determined not only to defend themselves against physical threats, but also against lack of recognition, against perceived threats to their identities as law-abiding, trustworthy American citizens. They demanded that ...
... laws were determined not only to defend themselves against physical threats, but also against lack of recognition, against perceived threats to their identities as law-abiding, trustworthy American citizens. They demanded that ...
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... law-abiding citizens will improve conditions for their families. They look for other measures, other kinds of resources and inventions, to reconstruct their sections of the city, and in doing so they prompt us to think about the wide ...
... law-abiding citizens will improve conditions for their families. They look for other measures, other kinds of resources and inventions, to reconstruct their sections of the city, and in doing so they prompt us to think about the wide ...
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Contenido
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Chapter 2 American Stories | 31 |
Chapter 3 Fields Near Home | 47 |
Combat by Story and Statistics | 79 |
Looking for the Bad Guys | 99 |
Chapter 6 Gun Games and Homegrown Rebellion | 131 |
Chapter 7 In the Cities on the Edge | 161 |
Chapter 8 Conclusion | 197 |
Authors Note to Appendix | 239 |
Primary Source Documents | 241 |
Index | 329 |
About the Author | 339 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Women and Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America 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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