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.
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.