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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... violence; nothing seemed more natural. And yet those million moms are only part of a long, complicated American story, one that begins with women who cross-dressed and fought in the RevolutionaryWar and continues through a cavalcade of ...
... violence; nothing seemed more natural. And yet those million moms are only part of a long, complicated American story, one that begins with women who cross-dressed and fought in the RevolutionaryWar and continues through a cavalcade of ...
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... violence. Throughout much of American history, the gun has served as a recurrent symbol that links violence and masculinity. For over two centuries, there have been women who have escaped conventional gender roles by picking up guns. In ...
... violence. Throughout much of American history, the gun has served as a recurrent symbol that links violence and masculinity. For over two centuries, there have been women who have escaped conventional gender roles by picking up guns. In ...
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... violence, as well as women's capability to defend—or engage in insurrection against—the state. Much of this history has been forgotten, as have earlier commercial images of women with guns. Yet for the pundits of the s and ...
... violence, as well as women's capability to defend—or engage in insurrection against—the state. Much of this history has been forgotten, as have earlier commercial images of women with guns. Yet for the pundits of the s and ...
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... violence, atask that the government is clearlynotup to. No longer touted for use in a friendly forest, firearms for women are meant to ward off urban menace. Perhaps not surprisingly, in the gun manufacturers' world, the police are ...
... violence, atask that the government is clearlynotup to. No longer touted for use in a friendly forest, firearms for women are meant to ward off urban menace. Perhaps not surprisingly, in the gun manufacturers' world, the police are ...
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... violence. Yet the weapons brandished by the urban gun molls of the s highlighted for commentators dangerous linkages between these women's sexuality and their attraction to violence, and suggested as well the dangers posed by ...
... violence. Yet the weapons brandished by the urban gun molls of the s highlighted for commentators dangerous linkages between these women's sexuality and their attraction to violence, and suggested as well the dangers posed by ...
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