Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in AmericaUNC Press Books, 2006 - 287 páginas The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have interrupted the popular association of guns and masculinity, spurring debates about women's capabilities for violence as wel |
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... guns. I realized that I had never, up to this point, known a gun owner—or at least I didn't think I had known one. In retrospect, I am sure I had a mistaken impression, but, still, it took me awhile to grasp how common gun ownership was ...
... guns. I realized that I had never, up to this point, known a gun owner—or at least I didn't think I had known one. In retrospect, I am sure I had a mistaken impression, but, still, it took me awhile to grasp how common gun ownership was ...
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... gun stores and gun shows, and to teach me how to shoot weapons ranging from a black powder rifle to an ... ownership in the United States but also the way that maternity and gun use have been related in popular culture over the centuries ...
... gun stores and gun shows, and to teach me how to shoot weapons ranging from a black powder rifle to an ... ownership in the United States but also the way that maternity and gun use have been related in popular culture over the centuries ...
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... gun ownership among women was increasing dramatically and that by the mid- s to million women owned guns. A article in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology pointed out that while ''this claim has been ...
... gun ownership among women was increasing dramatically and that by the mid- s to million women owned guns. A article in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology pointed out that while ''this claim has been ...
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... gun laws, especially in the South, used racial ideology to limit ownership of firearms (the infamous Dred Scott decisionwas,amongotherthings,acaseabouttherightofAfri- can Americans to own guns).28 Given the long history of racialized gun ...
... gun laws, especially in the South, used racial ideology to limit ownership of firearms (the infamous Dred Scott decisionwas,amongotherthings,acaseabouttherightofAfri- can Americans to own guns).28 Given the long history of racialized gun ...
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... gun owners and gun- industry supporters in different,andcontradictory,ways.Forinstance,how is armed citizenship ... guns a means of escaping a contemporary version of female identity that seems uncongenial? As Dianne Gleason, a well ...
... gun owners and gun- industry supporters in different,andcontradictory,ways.Forinstance,how is armed citizenship ... guns a means of escaping a contemporary version of female identity that seems uncongenial? As Dianne Gleason, a well ...
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