Ladies in Arms : Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture / ed. by Teresa Hiergeist, Stefanie Schäfer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ajgaonkar, Hridaya, Contributor.

Dickel, Simon, Contributor.

Ellerbrock, Dagmar, Contributor.

Feldman, Andrea, Contributor.

Germanaz, Axelle, Contributor.

Gerund, Katharina, Contributor.

Hiergeist, Teresa, Contributor.

Hiergeist, Teresa, Editor.

Holtz, Martin, Contributor.

Kluger, Johanna, Contributor.

Kolesnyk, Ganna, Contributor.

Mayer, Stefanie, Contributor.

Schäfer, Stefanie, Contributor.

Schäfer, Stefanie, Editor.

Seauve, Lena, Contributor.

Spychala, Mareike, Contributor.

Türschmann, Jörg, Contributor.

Vrdoljak, Hana, Contributor.

Series:

Gender Studies.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Hiergeist Teresa : Teresa Hiergeist (Prof. Dr. phil.), geb. 1984, forscht und lehrt an der Universität Wien zu spanischer und französischer Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Ihre Schwerpunkte liegen im Bereich der kognitiven Narratologie, Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in der Frühen Neuzeit und Paragesellschaften seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert.Schäfer Stefanie : Stefanie Schäfer promovierte in Japanologie an der Freien Universität Berlin. Ihre Forschung befasst sich mit Fragen des kollektiven Erinnerns, insbesondere mit dem Atombombengedenken und seiner touristischen Dimension.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Ladies in Arms. An Introduction

Section I: History Reloaded? Reinventing Military and Paramilitary Shooters

The Difference between a Shooting and an Armed Woman

Re-Arming an American Heroine

Armed Resistance and Femininity

The Limits of Empowerment

Section II: Violent Societies: Civic Gun Cultures, Gender, and Politics

›Don't Retreat, Reload‹

Revenge is »Beautiful«

»My Palm and My Trigger Finger Itch, Bitch«

Section III: Firearm Fictions: Media, Genre, and the Making of the Armed Heroine

»On Thursdays We Shoot«

Cowgirling in Thuringia

Violence and the Good Women of Bollywood

Ladies and Arms

Not Citizen-Soldiers but Vigilantes

Section IV: Shooting to Kill (Patriarchy): Feminist Gunwomen

What is a Painter without a Gun?

Unpopular Feminism

Armed Women as Fascinosum Tremendum

Warrior of the Light

Authors

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9783839469552

3839469554

OCLC:

1428236207