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Browder, Laura, 1963-

Her best shot : women and guns in America / Laura Browder. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006. - xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-277) and index.

Introduction: The news about women and guns -- Military heroines : narratives of female soldiers and spies in the Civil War -- Little Miss Sure Shot and friends, or, How armed women tamed the West -- Maid Marians and bad mothers : from the gungirls of the 1920s to the gangsters of the 1930s -- Radical women of the 1960s and 1970s -- Armed women of the far right : race mothers, warriors, and the surprising case of Carolyn Chute -- Armed feminism or family values? : women and guns today -- Conclusion.

ISBN: 080783050X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807830505 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006010730

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--History--United States--Miscellanea.
Firearms owners--History.--United States
Women outlaws--History.--United States
Women soldiers--History.--United States
Women radicals--History.--United States
Women in popular culture--History.--United States
Firearms--Social aspects--United States.

LC Class. No.: HQ1410 / .B76 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 305.48/96920973