Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America
by
Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Women, we are told, should not own guns. Women, we are told, are more likely to be injured by their own guns than to fend off an attack themselves. This "fact" is rooted in a fundamental assumption of female weakness and vulnerability. Why should a woman not be every bit as capable as a...