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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... story, one that begins with women who cross-dressed and fought in the RevolutionaryWar and continues through a cavalcade of Wild West stars, gangsters, revolutionaries of the right and left, and gun-owning housewives, all the way up to ...
... story, one that begins with women who cross-dressed and fought in the RevolutionaryWar and continues through a cavalcade of Wild West stars, gangsters, revolutionaries of the right and left, and gun-owning housewives, all the way up to ...
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... story that described bras, garters, and belly bands designed to hold concealed weaponry.1 Other stories discussed the NationalRifle Association'sdecision togearads towardwomen,whichwere placed in suchmagazines as People, Family Circle ...
... story that described bras, garters, and belly bands designed to hold concealed weaponry.1 Other stories discussed the NationalRifle Association'sdecision togearads towardwomen,whichwere placed in suchmagazines as People, Family Circle ...
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... stories about the feminization of gunnery...pro-gungroups and the media have greatly exaggerated the rate of gun ownership among women.'' The article's authors, Tom W. Smith and Robert J. Smith, analyzed data presented by the University ...
... stories about the feminization of gunnery...pro-gungroups and the media have greatly exaggerated the rate of gun ownership among women.'' The article's authors, Tom W. Smith and Robert J. Smith, analyzed data presented by the University ...
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... story of the Stevens Tersely Told: Chapter 'Aim' [illustrated by a woman raising her rifle], Chapter 'Game' [showing the same woman with rifle lowered accepting a dead bird from her hunting dog].''17 Clearly, a woman with a gun ...
... story of the Stevens Tersely Told: Chapter 'Aim' [illustrated by a woman raising her rifle], Chapter 'Game' [showing the same woman with rifle lowered accepting a dead bird from her hunting dog].''17 Clearly, a woman with a gun ...
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... story, their threat was always containable—they were more thrilling to the male viewer than menacing to society at large. A similar efflorescence of sexualized images followed the next publicly decried outbreak of female armed violence ...
... story, their threat was always containable—they were more thrilling to the male viewer than menacing to society at large. A similar efflorescence of sexualized images followed the next publicly decried outbreak of female armed violence ...
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