Her Best Shot
Subtitle: Women and Guns in America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780807830505
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social History; Violence in society; Women's studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; United States; Social Science; Sociology; Women's Studies - History; USA; Women; Social Science / Women's Studies; Miscellanea; Women's Studies - General; Firearms owners; History; Women outlaws
Description: "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.