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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... roles by picking up guns. In doing so, they became armed 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 ...
... roles by picking up guns. In doing so, they became armed 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 ...
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... roles. The ''Brooklyn gungirls'' who so transfixed newspaper readers during the s were clearly threats to the urban social order. Womanhood is, after all, linked closely to sexuality; and guns—and the possibilities of violence ...
... roles. The ''Brooklyn gungirls'' who so transfixed newspaper readers during the s were clearly threats to the urban social order. Womanhood is, after all, linked closely to sexuality; and guns—and the possibilities of violence ...
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... roles if they were to succeed in reaching a wide audience. Belle Boyd, the most famous Confederate cross-dresser, claimed that she shot her first Union soldier because he used disrespectful language to her mother: the murder was framed ...
... roles if they were to succeed in reaching a wide audience. Belle Boyd, the most famous Confederate cross-dresser, claimed that she shot her first Union soldier because he used disrespectful language to her mother: the murder was framed ...
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... role, ''I ain't no Doris Day.'' For her, choosing an identity as Calamity Jane—branded in her time as criminal, drunk, and racially degenerate—was a means to personal freedom. Gleason's first character, she told me, had been an imagined ...
... role, ''I ain't no Doris Day.'' For her, choosing an identity as Calamity Jane—branded in her time as criminal, drunk, and racially degenerate—was a means to personal freedom. Gleason's first character, she told me, had been an imagined ...
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Contenido
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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