Bibliograph

Her best shot, women and guns in America, Laura Browder

Type

Label

Her best shot, women and guns in America, Laura Browder

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-277) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Her best shot

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

65407304

Responsibility statement

Laura Browder

Review

"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

Sub title

women and guns in America

Table Of Contents

Introduction: The news about women and guns -- Military heroines : narratives of female soldiers and spies in the Civil War -- Little Miss Sure Shot and friends, or, How armed women tamed the West -- Maid Marians and bad mothers : from the gungirls of the 1920s to the gangsters of the 1930s -- Radical women of the 1960s and 1970s -- Armed women of the far right : race mothers, warriors, and the surprising case of Carolyn Chute -- Armed feminism or family values? : women and guns today -- Conclusion

Target audience

juvenile

Classification

Creator