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Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism

By France Winddance Twine

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
0415516730, 9780415516730
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
979 kB (1002511 bytes)
Series
Framing 21st Century Social Issues
Edition
1
Pages
104\105
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-08-14 17:01:38

Description

A nuanced understanding of state violence and gender (in)equalities must consider the varied and contradictory experiences of armed civilian women, female soldiers, and opponents of gun possession. How is ‘feminism’ and ‘femininity’ negotiated in the early 21st century by civilian and military women in a nation that fetishizes guns? This book addresses this social problem by offering a comparative analysis of the particular dilemmas that gender inequality, class inequality, race/racism and U.S. nationalism generate for women of diverse backgrounds who are struggling to balance conventional gender roles, femininity and gendered violence in the United States.

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