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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... masculinity. For over two centuries, there have been women who have escaped conventional gender roles by picking up guns. In doing so, they became armed icons.Paradoxically,to succeed with the public, these famous armed women have had ...
... masculinity. For over two centuries, there have been women who have escaped conventional gender roles by picking up guns. In doing so, they became armed icons.Paradoxically,to succeed with the public, these famous armed women have had ...
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... masculinity. Iconic women with guns challenge and yet reinforce the connection between firearms and (masculine) American identity. Consequently, public discussions of such women reflect the discomfort that they produce in American ...
... masculinity. Iconic women with guns challenge and yet reinforce the connection between firearms and (masculine) American identity. Consequently, public discussions of such women reflect the discomfort that they produce in American ...
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... masculine, such as swearing or promiscuity, or were seen as racially ambiguous quickly found their performing careers derailed. By the s and s, the social anxieties that focused on armed women demonstrate how unstable a ...
... masculine, such as swearing or promiscuity, or were seen as racially ambiguous quickly found their performing careers derailed. By the s and s, the social anxieties that focused on armed women demonstrate how unstable a ...
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... as ''a very masculine person...[who]could both drink whiskey and swear.''34 However, the idealized Molly Pitcher—who grew more Molly Pitcher, the fictional female soldier who remains the most.
... as ''a very masculine person...[who]could both drink whiskey and swear.''34 However, the idealized Molly Pitcher—who grew more Molly Pitcher, the fictional female soldier who remains the most.
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