Gun Women : : Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America / / Carol K. Oyster, Mary Zeiss Stange.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Stange, Mary Zeiss,; Oyster, Carol K.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Women, we are told, should not own guns. Women, we are told, are more likely to be injured by their own guns than to fend off an attack themselves. This "fact" is rooted in a fundamental assumption of female weakness and vulnerability. Why should a woman not be every bit as capable as a ma...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Snapshot
• Snapshot
• 1. “High Noon at the Gender Gap”
• 2. Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
• 3. In the Line of Fire
• 4. Babies and Bullets in the Same Conversation
• 5. Sometimes Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• Notes
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Index
• About the Authors