Women & Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in AmericaM.E. Sharpe, 2000 M11 17 - 256 páginas This timely and provocative book looks at contemporary American women and their experiences with guns. Scrupulously balanced, this new paperback edition features a new appendix containing a wealth of primary source documents that help illuminate both the dangers and attractions of guns in our society. |
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... Guys Chapter 6. Gun Games and Homegrown Rebellion Chapter 7. In the Cities , on the Edge Chapter 8. Conclusion Index viii ix 3 31 47 79 99 131 161 197 239 vii 740 About the Author Deborah Homsher graduated from Brown University and.
... Guys Chapter 6. Gun Games and Homegrown Rebellion Chapter 7. In the Cities , on the Edge Chapter 8. Conclusion Index viii ix 3 31 47 79 99 131 161 197 239 vii 740 About the Author Deborah Homsher graduated from Brown University and.
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... guys with bad guys . They seemed ethi- cally , morally blind ... very badly educated . It was reasonable to ask , then , whether certain aspects of American life contributed to this sort of terrible blindness , just as it was reasonable ...
... guys with bad guys . They seemed ethi- cally , morally blind ... very badly educated . It was reasonable to ask , then , whether certain aspects of American life contributed to this sort of terrible blindness , just as it was reasonable ...
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... guy had guns , and in fact , he's the one who taught me to shoot , and it was fun . But , unfortunately , when you have an unbalanced person in your fam- ily , the last thing you need is a gun around , and in this case Sarah Brady's ...
... guy had guns , and in fact , he's the one who taught me to shoot , and it was fun . But , unfortunately , when you have an unbalanced person in your fam- ily , the last thing you need is a gun around , and in this case Sarah Brady's ...
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... guy in the coonskin cap shoots whatever gets in his way usually indig- enous American wildlife and Native American human life . His firearm ex- cites in him the most dire masculine impulses . He is dependent , not independent ; short ...
... guy in the coonskin cap shoots whatever gets in his way usually indig- enous American wildlife and Native American human life . His firearm ex- cites in him the most dire masculine impulses . He is dependent , not independent ; short ...
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Women and Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
Women and Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America: Politics ... Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
Women & Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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Página 157 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.
Página 33 - Ohio, rolling in silent dignity, and m-arking the western boundary of Kentucky with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows and penetrate the clouds. All things were still.
Página 157 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Página 33 - I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought, just at the close of day the gentle gales retired, and left the place to the disposal of a profound calm. Not a breeze shook the most tremulous leaf. I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Página 34 - There was always a bottle present, so that it would seem to him that those fine fierce instants of heart and brain and courage and wiliness and speed were concentrated and distilled into that brown liquor which not women, not boys and children, but only hunters drank, drinking not of the blood they spilled but some condensation of the wild immortal spirit...
Página 55 - The man must be glad to do a man's work, to dare and endure and to labor; to keep himself, and to keep those dependent upon him. The woman must be the housewife, the helpmeet of the homemaker, the wise and fearless mother of many healthy children. In one of Daudet's powerful and melancholy books he speaks of "the fear of maternity, the haunting terror of the young wife of the present day.
Página 32 - Ever since, the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been a man on the run, harried into the forest and out to sea, down the river or into combat — anywhere to avoid "civilization...
Página 34 - It was of the men, not white nor black nor red, but men, hunters with the will and hardihood to endure and the humility and skill to survive...
Página 225 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past...
Referencias a este libro
The Right to Bear Arms: Rights and Liberties Under the Law Robert J. Spitzer Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |