Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Ladies in Arms. An Introduction -- 1. Frida Kahlo at the Gun Shop -- 2. Armed Women and Popular Feminism -- 3. Theorizing the Gunwoman: The Firearm between Prosthesis and Accessory -- 4. Representations of Shooting Women in Contemporary Popular Culture -- Works Cited -- Section I: History Reloaded? Reinventing Military and Paramilitary Shooters -- The Difference between a Shooting and an Armed Woman -- 1. Faces of the Paris Commune -- 2. The Stereotype of Louise Michel as »a Shooting Woman« -- 3. Contemporary Representations of Louise Michel as »an Armed Woman« -- 3.1 Louise Michel's Republicanization in Georges et Louise -- 3.2 Louise Michel's Goes Bourgeois in Le temps des cerises -- 3.3 Louise Michel's Privatization in Louise Michel. Non à l'exploitation -- 4. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Re‑Arming an American Heroine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Larger‐than‐Life? Harriet Tubman on Underground -- 3. »To Be Young, Gifted, and Black«: Harriet -- 4. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Armed Resistance and Femininity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sincerity, Guilt, and Confession: The Testimonios -- 3. Fictionalization and Testimonio as Part of Memory Culture -- 4. The Depiction of Guns and Gun Violence -- 5. The Representation of Female Sexuality -- 6. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- The Limits of Empowerment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Lure of the Military -- 3. The Failure of the Military -- 4. The Gun as Corruptor -- 5. Solidarity with the Other -- 6. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Section II: Violent Societies: Civic Gun Cultures, Gender, and Politics -- ›Don't Retreat, Reload‹ -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gunning for Congress: Women of the Republican Party, Political Advertisements, and Guns -- 3. Pearls, Pumps, and Pistols: Rugged Femininity in Republican Women Candidates' Political Ads.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (323 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839469552
Series Statement:
Gender Studies
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31281514
DDC:
302.23082
Language:
English
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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