UID:
almahu_9949747867302882
Format:
1 online resource (323 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839469552
Series Statement:
Gender Studies
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Ladies in Arms. An Introduction -- 1. Frida Kahlo at the Gun Shop -- 2. Armed Women and Popular Feminism -- 3. Theorizing the Gunwoman: The Firearm between Prosthesis and Accessory -- 4. Representations of Shooting Women in Contemporary Popular Culture -- Works Cited -- Section I: History Reloaded? Reinventing Military and Paramilitary Shooters -- The Difference between a Shooting and an Armed Woman -- 1. Faces of the Paris Commune -- 2. The Stereotype of Louise Michel as »a Shooting Woman« -- 3. Contemporary Representations of Louise Michel as »an Armed Woman« -- 3.1 Louise Michel's Republicanization in Georges et Louise -- 3.2 Louise Michel's Goes Bourgeois in Le temps des cerises -- 3.3 Louise Michel's Privatization in Louise Michel. Non à l'exploitation -- 4. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Re‑Arming an American Heroine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Larger‐than‐Life? Harriet Tubman on Underground -- 3. »To Be Young, Gifted, and Black«: Harriet -- 4. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Armed Resistance and Femininity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sincerity, Guilt, and Confession: The Testimonios -- 3. Fictionalization and Testimonio as Part of Memory Culture -- 4. The Depiction of Guns and Gun Violence -- 5. The Representation of Female Sexuality -- 6. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- The Limits of Empowerment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Lure of the Military -- 3. The Failure of the Military -- 4. The Gun as Corruptor -- 5. Solidarity with the Other -- 6. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Section II: Violent Societies: Civic Gun Cultures, Gender, and Politics -- ›Don't Retreat, Reload‹ -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gunning for Congress: Women of the Republican Party, Political Advertisements, and Guns -- 3. Pearls, Pumps, and Pistols: Rugged Femininity in Republican Women Candidates' Political Ads.
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4. »Battle‐Ready« Female Fighters: Insurgency in Republican Women Candidates' Ads -- 5. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Revenge is »Beautiful« -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Revenge, a Useful Explanation -- 1.2 Colombia, a Violent Nation? -- 2. Gender in the Context of Colombian Revenge Heroines -- 2.1 Rosario, the Victimized Masculine femme fatale -- 2.2 Cataleya, the Violent Unreal Other -- 2.3 Paula, the ›Real‹ Heroine? -- 3. Conclusion: Subversive Gender Crossings - Potentials and Limits -- Works Cited -- »My Palm and My Trigger Finger Itch, Bitch« -- 1. Introduction: Guns, Gangs, and Hip Hop -- 2. »Gangsta Bitch Music«: Gangsterism and Female Hustling in Works by Cardi B -- 2.1 Gangsta Feminism and Firearms? Cardi B's Gangsta Persona -- 2.2 »Baby Mommy with the Clip«: Hustling for the Family? -- 2.3 »Touch Me, I'll Shoot«: Female Self‐Fashioning in Gangsta Rap -- 3. Conclusion: Hip Hop's Female Gun Culture -- Works Cited -- Section III: Firearm Fictions: Media, Genre, and the Making of the Armed Heroine -- »On Thursdays We Shoot« -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Regency Romance Novel as Historical Fantasy -- 3. The Shooting Heroine and The Disbelieving Hero -- 4. Bridging the Distance: Permissible Transgressions Against the Gender Binary -- 5. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Cowgirling in Thuringia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reading Tatort Weimar: Weltliteratur meets Local Color -- 3. El Doroda's »Hippies in Tipis«: Hobbyism, Indianthusiasm, and Cowgirling in the Wild East -- 4. »There's a Cowgirl in Me«: Kira Gets her Gun -- 5. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Violence and the Good Women of Bollywood -- 1. Introduction: Registering the Dual Pleasures of Sex and Violence in Mainstream Indian Cinema -- 2. Angry Wives and Mothers: Violence and Melodrama in Bollywood -- 2.1 Khoon Bhari Maang -- 2.2 Ram‐Leela -- 2.3 Darlings -- 3. Conclusion: Violent Collaborations.
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Works Cited -- Ladies and Arms -- 1. Ferrets, Parasites and Wandering Buttons: Metaphors for the Encounter between Human Subjects and Material Objects -- 2. Besson's Anna and Leeloo Save the World -- 3. Terminology: Role, Actress and Person -- 4. Cyborgs and Transhuman Beings: Metamorphoses of the Paranoid Body -- 5. Replicas as Cinematic Self‐reference -- 6. Uniqueness, Independence, and Commitment of Besson's Heroines -- 7. The Beautiful Heroine: Just a ›Gender‐Bomb‹? -- Works Cited -- Not Citizen‐Soldiers but Vigilantes -- 1. Introduction: The Old Guard and (Female) Superheroes in Comic and Film -- 2. Citizen‐Soldiers and (Female) Vigilantes in the Post‑9/11 World -- 3. (Female) Vigilantes as Perpetual Outsiders and Unilateral Actors in »Western« History -- 4. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Section IV: Shooting to Kill (Patriarchy): Feminist Gunwomen -- What is a Painter without a Gun? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nasta Rojc's Background and Education -- 3. Self‐portrait with a Rifle -- 4. The Reception of Nasta Rojc in Croatia -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. Acknowledgement -- Works Cited -- Unpopular Feminism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Radical Feminism and Rape in The World According to Garp -- 3. Close reading: The Shooting Woman -- 4. Transgender and Feminist Critiques -- 5. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Armed Women as Fascinosum Tremendum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contemporary Narratives of Viking Warrior Women -- 3. God Sagas: Pre‐Modern Armed Women and Women Warriors -- 4. Women Fighters in Antiquity: In the Arena and in War -- 5. Fascinating and Terrifying: the Valkyries -- 6. Warrior Women as Modern National Allegories -- 7. Civil Gun Cultures and Gunwomanship -- 8. The German Red Army Fraction's Female Terrorists -- 9. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Warrior of the Light -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Sources of Female Warrior Imagery in Ukraine.
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3. Ukraine as a Violent Woman -- 4. Warrior Ukraine as Berehynia and Morana -- 5. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Authors.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Hiergeist, Teresa Ladies in Arms Bielefeld : transcript Verlag,c2024 ISBN 9783837669558
Language:
English
Keywords:
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