Women And Guns

Author : Laura Browder
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807877409
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Best Shot written by Laura Browder and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Caitlin Kelly
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blown Away written by Caitlin Kelly and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2004-04-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating expose, an award-winning journalist takes aim at one of today's hottest topics: the arming of America's women.

Author : Lindsay McCrum
Publisher : Vendome Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865652750
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicks with Guns written by Lindsay McCrum and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a portrait collection of women and guns with subjects expressing their passion for firearms.

Author : Paxton Quigley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312951504
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armed and Female written by Paxton Quigley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-03-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete book on one of the hottest subjects in the media today--gun ownership. Quigley offers women sound advice about everything from whether to buy a gun to choosing the proper weapon to training yourself to use it. Personal stories and crime victims' accounts help her make her case for women arming themselves.

Author : Deborah Homsher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317451945
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Guns written by Deborah Homsher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mary Zeiss Stange
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814797600
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gun Women written by Mary Zeiss Stange and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stange and Oyster (religion and women's studies, Skidmore College and psychology, U. of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, respectively) describe their personal relationships to guns, express appreciation for the beauty and skill of shooting, and excoriate the hyperbole on either side of the debate over guns. While asserting the feminist aspects of gun ownership in slightly more nuanced terms than usual, the volume is perhaps too dependent on anecdote to answer the philosophical, psychological, and political questions it engages. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : France Winddance Twine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415516730
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girls with Guns written by France Winddance Twine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the SeriesThe goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable ""thinking frames"" on today's social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60 page or shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html.For instructors teaching a wide range of courses in the social sciences, the Routledge Social Issues Collection now offers the best of both worlds: originally written short texts that provide ""overviews"" to important social issues as well as teachable exce.

Author : Dexter Filkins
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307279448
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forever War written by Dexter Filkins and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism and a searing exploration of its human costs—an instant classic of war reporting from the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, we witness the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, the aftermath of the attack on New York on September 11th, and the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins is the only American journalist to have reported on all these events, and his experiences are conveyed in a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters and astonishing scenes. Brilliant and fearless, The Forever War is not just about America's wars after 9/11, but about the nature of war itself.

Author : Tanya Lyons
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592211678
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guns and Guerilla Girls written by Tanya Lyons and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of women guerilla fighters in the Zimbabwean National Liberation war (1965-80), this book provides an examination of the many different groups of women who joined the armed struggle and contributes to a feminist understanding of Zimbabwe and African history and politics. Most previously published accounts of this event in history have tended to focus on the feminine' or 'natural' role women played in it, ignoring the experiences of female guerilla fighters. This book redresses the balance, giving voice to a previously unsung group of women.'

Author : Debbie Ferns
Publisher : Bullseye Trading Post
ISBN 13 : 9780976339595
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babes with Bullets written by Debbie Ferns and published by Bullseye Trading Post. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of interviews with women, across the U S., that are involved in a wide variety of shooting sports. These gals touched a gun for the first time in their middle ages, as did author Debbie Ferns. The last chapter of the book is devoted to ways that a woman can be successfully introduced to the gun range, gun safety, and the fun adventures available through shooting sports. The book is written in an "Erma Bombeck" style and is an easy read. The web site for more information and order is www.babeswithbullets. net