Ladies in Arms
Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture
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Beschreibung
A discussion of the feminist potentials of the armed woman 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.
Autor*in
Teresa Hiergeist
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.
Themen in »Ladies in Arms«
Feminism Feminism Gun Culture Gun Culture Popular Culture Popular Culture Heroines Heroines Literature Literature Film Film Visual Art Visual Art Memoir
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»Die einzelnen Beiträge des englischsprachigen Bandes zeigen die ganze Bandbreite der verschiedenen Rollen bewaffneter Frauen und ihrer Darstellung in den Medien. Die Leser*innen bekommen zahlreiche Anregungen, das Bild bewaffneter Frauen zu überdenken und in einen kulturhistorischen Kontext einzuordnen.«
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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)
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