@article{1480265,
      recid = {1480265},
      author = {Stange, Mary Zeiss,  and Oyster, Carol K., },
      title = {Gun Women : Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America  /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480265},
}