Ladies in Arms
Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture
1st Edition
Published on 4. March 2024
322 pages
978-3-8394-6955-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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»The individual contributions to this English-language volume showcase the full range of the various roles played by armed women and how they are portrayed in the media. Readers are offered numerous insights that encourage them to rethink the image of armed women and place it within a cultural-historical context.« (translated from German)More details
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Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture
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Teresa Hiergeist, Universität Wien, Österreich
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.
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Stefanie Schäfer, Universität Mannheim, Deutschland
Stefanie Schäfer ist Professorin für amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Mannheim. Ihre Forschung widmet sich Figurationen des Nationalen in den USA und Kanada, mit aktuellen Projekten zu First Ladies, zu europäischen Westernmythen und Cowgirls, sowie zu Populismus und Celebrity Culture in der US-Politik in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.
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