Zur Startseite gehen
0,00 €*
Cover: 9780807858899 | Her Best Shot | Women and Guns in America | Laura Browder | Buch
Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.
Her Best Shot
Women and Guns in America
Taschenbuch von Laura Browder
Sprache: Englisch

44,60 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Kategorien:
Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Laura Browder is professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches in the creative writing program. She is author of Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America and Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities (from the University of North Carolina Press).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780807858899
ISBN-10: 0807858897
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Browder, Laura
Hersteller: The University of North Carolina Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Laura Browder
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.03.2008
Gewicht: 0,517 kg
Artikel-ID: 101850502
Über den Autor
Laura Browder is professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches in the creative writing program. She is author of Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America and Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities (from the University of North Carolina Press).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780807858899
ISBN-10: 0807858897
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Browder, Laura
Hersteller: The University of North Carolina Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Laura Browder
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.03.2008
Gewicht: 0,517 kg
Artikel-ID: 101850502
Warnhinweis

Ähnliche Produkte

Ähnliche Produkte

Taschenbuch
Cover: 9780521796484 | Thomas Kuhn | Thomas Nickles | Taschenbuch | Paperback | Englisch
Thomas Kuhn
EAN: 9780521796484
Von/Mit: Thomas Nickles

38,50 €*

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Taschenbuch
Cover: 9783658134570 | Moderne Gesellschaften zwischen Homogenität und Pluralität | Laubmeier
Moderne Gesellschaften zwischen Homogenität und Pluralität
Basisprinzipien der Moderne in Eisenstadts Theorie der multiplen Modernitäten
EAN: 9783658134570
Sprache: Deutsch
Von/Mit: Daniela Laubmeier

44,99 €*

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Taschenbuch
Cover: 9780684854922 | Your'e Too Kind | A Brief History of Flattery | Richard Stengel | Buch
Your'e Too Kind
A Brief History of Flattery
EAN: 9780684854922
Sprache: Englisch
Von/Mit: Richard Stengel

20,80 €*

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Taschenbuch
Cover: 9780814716038 | Sisters in the Struggle | Bettye Collier-Thomas (u. a.) | Taschenbuch
Sisters in the Struggle
African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
EAN: 9780814716038
Sprache: Englisch
Von/Mit: Bettye Collier-Thomas (u. a.)

36,00 €*

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Buch
Cover: 9780750988957 | The Beautiful Spy: The Life and Crimes of Vera Eriksen | David Tremain
The Beautiful Spy: The Life and Crimes of Vera Eriksen
EAN: 9780750988957
Sprache: Englisch
Von/Mit: David Tremain

45,00 €*

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Buch
Cover: 9783525564783 | At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds | Stuart S Miller
At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds
Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, and Ritual Purity Among the Jews of Roman Galilee, Journal of Ancient Judaism....
EAN: 9783525564783
Sprache: Englisch
Von/Mit: Stuart S Miller

170,00 €*

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Taschenbuch
Cover: 9781780277202 | The Appin Murder | The Killing That Shook a Nation | James Hunter
The Appin Murder
The Killing That Shook a Nation
EAN: 9781780277202
Sprache: Englisch
Von/Mit: James Hunter

17,00 €*

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Buch
Cover: 9781440871283 | Daily Life of Women in Postwar America | Nancy Hendricks | Buch | 2021
Daily Life of Women in Postwar America
EAN: 9781440871283
Sprache: Englisch
Von/Mit: Nancy Hendricks

78,30 €*

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Taschenbuch
Cover: 9780262048163 | Writing for Their Lives | Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette | Taschenbuch
Writing for Their Lives
America's Pioneering Female Science Journalists
EAN: 9780262048163
Sprache: Englisch
Von/Mit: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

32,40 €*

Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen

Buch
Cover: 9781528773379 | Anna Atkins' Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns | Anna Atkins
Anna Atkins' Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns
EAN: 9781528773379
Sprache: Englisch
Von/Mit: Anna Atkins

51,80 €*

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um eine bestmögliche Erfahrung bieten zu können. Mehr Informationen ...