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

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.

Author: Teresa Hiergeist, Stefanie Schäfer

Publisher: Transcript Publishing

Publication Date: Apr 30, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 3837669556

ISBN-13: 9783837669558