Her best shot : women and guns in America
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2006
Trivia and miscellanea
xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780807830505, 9780807858899, 080783050X, 0807858897
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Introduction: The news about women and guns
Military heroines : narratives of female soldiers and spies in the Civil War
Little Miss Sure Shot and friends, or, How armed women tamed the West
Maid Marians and bad mothers : from the gungirls of the 1920s to the gangsters of the 1930s
Radical women of the 1960s and 1970s
Armed women of the far right : race mothers, warriors, and the surprising case of Carolyn Chute
Armed feminism or family values? : women and guns today
Conclusion