Ladies in Arms : Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture

Ladies in Arms Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture

In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? How do films, comics, and TV series depict the newly fashionable gunwomen between objectification and feminist empowerment? The contributions to this volume ask this question from d...

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Other Authors: Ajgaonkar, Hridaya, contributor (contributor), Dickel, Simon, contributor (editor), Ellerbrock, Dagmar, contributor, Feldman, Andrea, contributor, Germanaz, Axelle, contributor, Gerund, Katharina, contributor, Hiergeist, Teresa, contributor, Hiergeist, Teresa, editor, Holtz, Martin, contributor, Kluger, Johanna, contributor, Kolesnyk, Ganna, contributor, Mayer, Stefanie, contributor, Schäfer, Stefanie, contributor, Schäfer, Stefanie, editor, Seauve, Lena, contributor, Spychala, Mareike, contributor, Türschmann, Jörg, contributor, Vrdoljak, Hana, contributor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag [2024]
Edition:First edition
Series:Gender Studies.
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
American Studies.
Culture.
Film.
Gender Studies.
Gender.
Gun Culture.
Heroines.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Memoir.
Popular Culture.
Visual Art.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009810653206719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Ladies in Arms. An Introduction
  • Section I: History Reloaded? Reinventing Military and Paramilitary Shooters
  • The Difference between a Shooting and an Armed Woman
  • Re-Arming an American Heroine
  • Armed Resistance and Femininity
  • The Limits of Empowerment
  • Section II: Violent Societies: Civic Gun Cultures, Gender, and Politics
  • ›Don't Retreat, Reload‹
  • Revenge is »Beautiful«
  • »My Palm and My Trigger Finger Itch, Bitch«
  • Section III: Firearm Fictions: Media, Genre, and the Making of the Armed Heroine
  • »On Thursdays We Shoot«
  • Cowgirling in Thuringia
  • Violence and the Good Women of Bollywood
  • Ladies and Arms
  • Not Citizen-Soldiers but Vigilantes
  • Section IV: Shooting to Kill (Patriarchy): Feminist Gunwomen
  • What is a Painter without a Gun?
  • Unpopular Feminism
  • Armed Women as Fascinosum Tremendum
  • Warrior of the Light
  • Authors

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