Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in AmericaUNC Press Books, 2009 M09 15 - 304 páginas The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have disrupted the popular association of guns and masculinity, spurring debates about women's capabilities for violence as well as their capacity for full citizenship. In Her Best Shot, Laura Browder examines the relationship between women and guns and the ways in which the figure of the armed woman has served as a lightning rod for cultural issues. Utilizing autobiographies, advertising, journalism, novels, and political tracts, among other sources, Browder traces appearances of the armed woman across a chronological spectrum from the American Revolution to the present and an ideological spectrum ranging from the Black Panthers to right-wing militias. Among the colorful characters presented here are Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man to fight in the American Revolution; Pauline Cushman, who posed as a Confederate to spy for Union forces during the Civil War; Wild West sure-shot Annie Oakley; African explorer Osa Johnson; 1930s gangsters Ma Barker and Bonnie Parker; and Patty Hearst, the hostage-turned-revolutionary-turned-victim. With her entertaining and provocative analysis, Browder demonstrates that armed women both challenge and reinforce the easy equation that links guns, manhood, and American identity. |
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... citizenship—and women's capabilities for 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 ...
... citizenship—and women's capabilities for 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 ...
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... and incapable of producing many children. In short, using a gun in the ways suggested by the ads was a part of good citizenship. By contrast, weapons ads since the s have encouraged women.
... and incapable of producing many children. In short, using a gun in the ways suggested by the ads was a part of good citizenship. By contrast, weapons ads since the s have encouraged women.
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... citizenship but also for the linkage between violence and masculinity. Iconic women with guns challenge and yet reinforce the connection between firearms and (masculine) American identity. Consequently, public discussions of such women ...
... citizenship but also for the linkage between violence and masculinity. Iconic women with guns challenge and yet reinforce the connection between firearms and (masculine) American identity. Consequently, public discussions of such women ...
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... citizenship and the right and obligation to fight in wars, the female soldier has been a particularly contested figure in United States history. Both feminists and antifeminists in the years leading up to the Civil War saw military ...
... citizenship and the right and obligation to fight in wars, the female soldier has been a particularly contested figure in United States history. Both feminists and antifeminists in the years leading up to the Civil War saw military ...
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... citizenship. In researching this book, I read early nineteenth-century autobiographical pamphlets, the proceedings of nineteenth-century women's rights conventions, best-selling novels of the Civil War era, gun advertisements from the ...
... citizenship. In researching this book, I read early nineteenth-century autobiographical pamphlets, the proceedings of nineteenth-century women's rights conventions, best-selling novels of the Civil War era, gun advertisements from the ...
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1 | |
Narratives of Female Soldiers and Spies in the Civil War | 22 |
2 Little Miss Sure Shot and Friends or How Armed Women Tamed the West | 57 |
From the Gungirls of the 1920s to the Gangsters of the 1930s | 100 |
4 Radical Women of the 1960s and 1970s | 136 |
Race Mothers Warriors and the Surprising Case of Carolyn Chute | 186 |
6 Armed Feminism or Family Values? Women and Guns Today | 212 |
Conclusion | 230 |
Notes | 235 |
Bibliography | 261 |
Index | 279 |
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