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Her best shot : women and guns in America
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- Creator
- Laura Browder
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807830505, 9780807858899, 080783050X, 9780807877401, 0807877409, 9798890878724, 0807858897
- OCLC
- ocn793521643, ocm65407304
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-277) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Women -- United States -- History -- Miscellanea.
- Firearms owners -- United States -- History.
- Women outlaws -- United States -- History.
- Women soldiers -- United States -- History.
- Women radicals -- United States -- History.
- Women in popular culture -- United States -- History.
- Firearms -- Social aspects -- United States.