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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... seemed to me that I led a particularly sheltered existence, I soon discovered how ignorant I was about much of American life—especially with regard to guns. I realized that I had never, up to this point, known a gun owner—or at least I ...
... seemed to me that I led a particularly sheltered existence, I soon discovered how ignorant I was about much of American life—especially with regard to guns. I realized that I had never, up to this point, known a gun owner—or at least I ...
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... seemed unrelated to those afternoons spent blasting away with an - at a worn- out target in the woods. Over time, I came to appreciate not only the complex interplay between popular ideas of womanhood and gun ownership in the ...
... seemed unrelated to those afternoons spent blasting away with an - at a worn- out target in the woods. Over time, I came to appreciate not only the complex interplay between popular ideas of womanhood and gun ownership in the ...
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... seemed especially dangerous to conservative commentators, who have often equated criminal gun use, degeneracy, and feminism. ''Strange Phase of Modern Feminism Keeps Whole of the Police Department Guessing Hard'' read a headline in the ...
... seemed especially dangerous to conservative commentators, who have often equated criminal gun use, degeneracy, and feminism. ''Strange Phase of Modern Feminism Keeps Whole of the Police Department Guessing Hard'' read a headline in the ...
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... seemed to be a way of asserting both female strength and rage.Yet to the writers for gun magazines, women's shooting reenactments are primarily a way to make guns seem ''fun'' and historical—and, thus, an effective way to soften the ...
... seemed to be a way of asserting both female strength and rage.Yet to the writers for gun magazines, women's shooting reenactments are primarily a way to make guns seem ''fun'' and historical—and, thus, an effective way to soften the ...
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