Gender and Firearms

ISBN-13: 9781032686394 / Miękka / 2024 / 272 str.

UK) Squires Peter (University of Brighton

Opis

Private gun ownership for self-defence remains a major issue in the US, driven by concerns about crime, vulnerability and ideological factors including race and gender. This book explores the changing gendered aspects of gun ownership.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Opening shots and signs of change  2. Rights speak and responsibilization: Gun advertising, feminism and the production of the woman gun-carrier  3. Packing Pretty: Towards the Armed Action women  4. The weaponised women of the movies  5. Personal choices and Public Consequences  6. Numbers games  7. Doctrine versus Practice: contradictions of Gun Ownership and ‘Stand Your Ground’ for Women  8. Concluding Themes, Other Women and Looking forwards

O autorze

Peter Squires is a Professor (Emeritus) of Criminology & Public Policy at the University of Brighton, UK. His research interests include gun crime and gun control; youth crime and disorder; anti-social behaviour; weapons, crime, and violence; community safety; crime prevention; surveillance and policing.  He is the author of Gun Culture or Gun Control: Firearms, Violence and Society (Routledge, 2000) and Gun Crime in Global Contexts (Routledge, 2014), Rethinking Knife Crime (2021) and co-author of Shooting to Kill: Policing Firearms and Armed Response (2010) and several other books.