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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... icons. Paradoxically, to succeed with the public, these famous armed women have had to embrace female stereotypes and expectations. Iconic women with guns have challenged and yet reinforced the masculinist ideal of America—that guns are ...
... icons. Paradoxically, to succeed with the public, these famous armed women have had to embrace female stereotypes and expectations. Iconic women with guns have challenged and yet reinforced the masculinist ideal of America—that guns are ...
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... to be little variation in who is represented as an icon. The firearms ads of the late s and early s that seem surprisingly advanced in Women and girl with hunting trophies at the Stone Ranch,
... to be little variation in who is represented as an icon. The firearms ads of the late s and early s that seem surprisingly advanced in Women and girl with hunting trophies at the Stone Ranch,
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... icon for many white women on the left, black women revolutionaries—as well as white radicals who were consciously trying to dismantle. G. Gordon Liddy's popular ''Stacked and Packed'' calendar accessorizes a model's Molly Pitcher, the ...
... icon for many white women on the left, black women revolutionaries—as well as white radicals who were consciously trying to dismantle. G. Gordon Liddy's popular ''Stacked and Packed'' calendar accessorizes a model's Molly Pitcher, the ...
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... icons from an earlier era. Nevertheless, the image of the Prairie Madonna, widely represented at the turn of the twentieth century as a pioneer mother, rifle in one hand, baby on a hip, settling the West as part of a nation-building ...
... icons from an earlier era. Nevertheless, the image of the Prairie Madonna, widely represented at the turn of the twentieth century as a pioneer mother, rifle in one hand, baby on a hip, settling the West as part of a nation-building ...
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... icons and their cultural meaning as a way of looking closely at questions of gender, power, and citizenship. Because armed women celebrities—and their interpreters—have often looked to a stock of iconic American images, such as the ...
... icons and their cultural meaning as a way of looking closely at questions of gender, power, and citizenship. Because armed women celebrities—and their interpreters—have often looked to a stock of iconic American images, such as 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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