Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in AmericaThe gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have interrupted the popular association of guns and masculinity, spurring debates about women's capabilities for violence as wel |
Contents
The News about Women and Guns | 1 |
Narratives of Female Soldiers and Spies in the Civil War | 22 |
2 Little Miss Sure Shot and Friends or How Armed Women Tamed the West | 57 |
From the Gungirls of the 1920s to the Gangsters of the 1930s | 100 |
4 Radical Women of the 1960s and 1970s | 136 |
Race Mothers Warriors and the Surprising Case of Carolyn Chute | 186 |
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