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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... racially strong nation filled with vigorous, fertile white women. Urban life, many worried, made women sickly and incapable of producing many children. In short, using a gun in the ways suggested by the ads was a part of good ...
... racially strong nation filled with vigorous, fertile white women. Urban life, many worried, made women sickly and incapable of producing many children. In short, using a gun in the ways suggested by the ads was a part of good ...
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... racial identity and freeing them from gender strictures? The armed female celebrities I discuss have foregrounded sometimes their racial identity and at other times their gender identity in their use of firearms. Turn-of-the-twentieth ...
... racial identity and freeing them from gender strictures? The armed female celebrities I discuss have foregrounded sometimes their racial identity and at other times their gender identity in their use of firearms. Turn-of-the-twentieth ...
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... racial status was not always secure. The Wild West show performers who became the era's most famous armed women needed to take special care that both their femininity and their whiteness were unimpeachable, since their ...
... racial status was not always secure. The Wild West show performers who became the era's most famous armed women needed to take special care that both their femininity and their whiteness were unimpeachable, since their ...
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... 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 category ''woman'' can be, even the category of ''white ...
... 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 category ''woman'' can be, even the category of ''white ...
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... 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 laws, it is not surprising that the ...
... 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 laws, it is not surprising that the ...
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