Ladies in arms: Women, guns, and feminisms in contemporary popular culture
Hiergeist T, Schäfer S (2024)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Edited Volume
Subtype: Book
Publication year: 2024
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Series: Gender Studies
City/Town: Bielefeld
ISBN: 9783839469552
Abstract
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.
Editors with CRIS profile
Stefanie Schäfer
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
Involved external institutions
Austria (AT)How to cite
APA:
Hiergeist, T., & Schäfer, S. (Eds.) (2024). Ladies in arms: Women, guns, and feminisms in contemporary popular culture. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
MLA:
Hiergeist, Teresa, and Stefanie Schäfer, eds. Ladies in arms: Women, guns, and feminisms in contemporary popular culture. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2024.
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