Women & Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in AmericaM.E. Sharpe, 2002 - 339 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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... legislation that would allow them to carry concealed hand- guns in public for personal self - defense . Thus the discourse explicitly in- voked assumptions about gender . But since certain women presented themselves as avidly pro - gun ...
... legislation that would allow them to carry concealed hand- guns in public for personal self - defense . Thus the discourse explicitly in- voked assumptions about gender . But since certain women presented themselves as avidly pro - gun ...
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... legislation as part of an effort to limit the availability of weapons in the United States and cure the nation's " epidemic " of violence , while others favored right - to - carry laws that would insure women retained their ...
... legislation as part of an effort to limit the availability of weapons in the United States and cure the nation's " epidemic " of violence , while others favored right - to - carry laws that would insure women retained their ...
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... legislation , and my husband and I do not own or keep guns in our house . Still , I had explained my position to Lyon earlier and felt that we each , warily , understood one another . Perched alone on the sofa in Shirley Lyon's living ...
... legislation , and my husband and I do not own or keep guns in our house . Still , I had explained my position to Lyon earlier and felt that we each , warily , understood one another . Perched alone on the sofa in Shirley Lyon's living ...
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... legislation : " As if criminals obey laws , they re- ally do , right ? " She herself owned and practiced with guns alongside her second husband and had taken a self - defense course offered by the Lethal Force Institute of Concord , New ...
... legislation : " As if criminals obey laws , they re- ally do , right ? " She herself owned and practiced with guns alongside her second husband and had taken a self - defense course offered by the Lethal Force Institute of Concord , New ...
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... legislation insist that a " free market " in guns endangers the citizenry and should thus be approached and confronted as a public health problem , akin to the problem posed by cigarette smoking . These two proposed agendas obviously ...
... legislation insist that a " free market " in guns endangers the citizenry and should thus be approached and confronted as a public health problem , akin to the problem posed by cigarette smoking . These two proposed agendas obviously ...
Contenido
American Stories | 31 |
Fields Near Home 42 | 42 |
Combat by Story and Statistics | 79 |
Looking for the Bad Guys | 99 |
Gun Games and Homegrown Rebellion | 131 |
In the Cities on the Edge | 161 |
Conclusion | 197 |
Authors Note to Appendix | 239 |
Index | 329 |
About the Author 339 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Women and Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
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Women & Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
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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 - 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 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 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 247 - The law is perfectly well settled that the first ten amendments to the Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights, were not intended to lay down any novel principles of government, but simply to embody certain guaranties and immunities which we had inherited from our English ancestors, and which had from time immemorial been subject to certain wellrecognized exceptions arising from the necessities of the case.
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...
Referencias a este libro
The Right to Bear Arms: Rights and Liberties Under the Law Robert J. Spitzer Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |