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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... readers commissioned by the Press, whose comments greatly improved the final work. Thanks to Susann B. Cokal for her heroic intervention at the eleventh hour. Early versions of some chapters were presented as papers at meetings of the ...
... readers commissioned by the Press, whose comments greatly improved the final work. Thanks to Susann B. Cokal for her heroic intervention at the eleventh hour. Early versions of some chapters were presented as papers at meetings of the ...
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... readers that ''an Iver Johnson revolver can lie around the house.''19 While the women in these ads were portrayed as ... readers of that publication—and the presence of women in the ads was not perceived to turn off male readers. A Some ...
... readers that ''an Iver Johnson revolver can lie around the house.''19 While the women in these ads were portrayed as ... readers of that publication—and the presence of women in the ads was not perceived to turn off male readers. A Some ...
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... readers during the s were clearly threats to the urban so- cial order. Womanhood is, after all, linked closely to sexuality; and guns—and the possibilities of violence they promise—in the hands of women whose sexuality is ...
... readers during the s were clearly threats to the urban so- cial order. Womanhood is, after all, linked closely to sexuality; and guns—and the possibilities of violence they promise—in the hands of women whose sexuality is ...
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... readers snapped up cheap novels featuring rough, ready, and sometimes bawdy cross-dressing female soldiers. Because the female soldier suggests a sexual ambiguity that conflicts with conventional expectations, the women who cross ...
... readers snapped up cheap novels featuring rough, ready, and sometimes bawdy cross-dressing female soldiers. Because the female soldier suggests a sexual ambiguity that conflicts with conventional expectations, the women who cross ...
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