Ladies in Arms Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2024
• Series: Gender Studies
• Subjects: American Studies; Biography, Literature and Literary studies; communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies; Culture; Feminism; Gender; gender groups; Gender Studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Gun Culture; Heroines; Literary Studies; Literary studies: general; Literature; Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general; Literature: history and criticism; Memoir; Popular Culture; Social groups, communities and identities; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::D Biography; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups; Visual Art
• ISBN: 3839469554; 9783837669558; 3837669556; 9783839469552
• DOI: 10.14361/9783839469552

In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? How do films, comics, and TV series depict the newly fashionable gunwomen between objectification and feminist empowerment? The contributions to this volume ask this question from different vantage points in cultural and literary studies, film and visual culture studies, history, and art history. They examine military and civic gun cultures, the rediscovery of historical armed women and revolutionaries, cultural phenomena such as gangsta rap, narcocultura and US politics, Bollywood and French cinema, and distinct genres such as the graphic novel, the romance novel, or the German police procedural Tatort.