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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... talking points,” of partisan advocacy groups organized to mediate between the government and the people. These advocacy groups clearly sought to influence public policy by cultivating, and educating, a constituency, be 3 Chapter 1. Meeting.
... talking points,” of partisan advocacy groups organized to mediate between the government and the people. These advocacy groups clearly sought to influence public policy by cultivating, and educating, a constituency, be 3 Chapter 1. Meeting.
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... talk about their memories and their opinions, but this did not happen because they were uniformly optimistic. They were not. A number of the people I interviewed felt that the nation was declining and becoming an unrecognizable entity ...
... talk about their memories and their opinions, but this did not happen because they were uniformly optimistic. They were not. A number of the people I interviewed felt that the nation was declining and becoming an unrecognizable entity ...
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... talking about guns, they focused on questions having to do with weapons. Some proposed to strengthen gun control legislation as part of an effort to limit the availability of weapons in the United States and cure the nation's “epidemic ...
... talking about guns, they focused on questions having to do with weapons. Some proposed to strengthen gun control legislation as part of an effort to limit the availability of weapons in the United States and cure the nation's “epidemic ...
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... talk with friends. A few surf the Internet or attend conferences. And from this hodgepodge of sources, they decide how to vote, to act, and to define themselves as citizens of the United States of America. Shirley Lyon's House Most of ...
... talk with friends. A few surf the Internet or attend conferences. And from this hodgepodge of sources, they decide how to vote, to act, and to define themselves as citizens of the United States of America. Shirley Lyon's House Most of ...
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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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