"A lively mix of memoir, cultural and historical analysis,
statistics, and cross-generational profiles of women who
shoot
--blasting the notion that feminism and firearms are
incompatible."
--"Peace News"
Women, 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 themselves for personal security in
ever-increasing numbers. What motivates women to possess firearms?
What is their relationship to their guns? And who exactly are these
women? Crucially, can a woman be a gun-owner and a feminist
too?
Women's growing tendency to arm themselves has in recent years
been political fodder for both the right and the left. Female gun
owners are frequently painted as "trying to be like men" (the
conservative perspective) or "capitulating to patriarchal ideas
about power" (the liberal critique). Eschewing the polar extremes
in the heated debate over gun ownership and gun control, and
linking firearms and feminism in novel fashion, Mary Zeiss Stange
and Carol K. Oyster here cut through the rhetoric to paint a
precise and unflinching account of America's gun women.
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