LEADER 03588nam 22007094a 450 001 9910782966603321 005 20230422043139.0 010 $a0-8147-3991-1 010 $a0-8147-8691-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000003525 035 $a(EBL)866214 035 $a(OCoLC)779828479 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280107 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11241359 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280107 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268859 035 $a(PQKB)10617575 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866214 035 $a(OCoLC)55638571 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10279 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL866214 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10032534 035 $a(DE-B1597)547574 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814786918 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000003525 100 $a20000602d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGun women$b[electronic resource] $efirearms and feminism in contemporary America /$fMary Zeiss Stange and Carol K. Oyster 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 225 1 $aA fast track book 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-9760-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-255) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Snapshot Mary Zeiss Stange, Trajectories; Snapshot Carol K. Oyster, Rings on Her Fingers, Shells in Her Gun; 1 "High Noon at the Gender Gap"Feminism and the Firearms Debate; Snapshot Peggy Tartaro, The Arms of Venus DeMilo; 2 Sisters Are Doing It for ThemselvesThe Question of Women's Armed Self-Defense; Snapshot Vivian B. Lord, Becoming a Police Officer-1975; Snapshot Jennifer Gwyn, Becoming a Police Officer-1999; 3 In the Line of FireWomen in Law Enforcement and the Military; Snapshot Susan Ewing, A Woman's Place 327 $a4 Babies and Bullets in the Same ConversationAmerican Women and HuntingSnapshot Abigail Kohn, Cowboy Dreaming: Guns in Fantasy andRole-Playing; 5 Sometimes Girls Just Want to Have FunRecreational and Competitive Shooting; Postscript; Notes; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index; About the Authors 330 $aWomen, we are told, should not own guns. Women, we are told, are more likely to be injured by their own guns than to fend off an attack themselves. This ""fact"" is rooted in a fundamental assumption of female weakness and vulnerability. Why should a woman not be every bit as capable as a man of using a firearm in self-defense?. And yet the reality is that millions of American women--somewhere between 11,000,000 and 17,000,000--use guns confidently and competently every day. Women are hunting, using firearms in their work as policewomen and in the military, shooting for sport, and arming thems 410 0$aFast track book 606 $aGun control$zUnited States$xPublic opinion 606 $aWomen$zUnited States$xAttitudes 606 $aFirearms owners$zUnited States 606 $aWomen hunters$zUnited States 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 615 0$aGun control$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aWomen$xAttitudes. 615 0$aFirearms owners 615 0$aWomen hunters 615 0$aPublic opinion 676 $a363.3/3/0820973 700 $aStange$b Mary Zeiss$01497986 701 $aOyster$b Carol K$01497987 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782966603321 996 $aGun women$93723340 997 $aUNINA