Edited by Teresa Hiergeist, Stefanie Schäfer

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.

Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2024. 322p.

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BY Andra Medea AND Kathleen Thompson

INTRODUCTION: “There are a number of reasons not to read this book: you have never been raped; you know it will never happen to you; if it did, you know you'd never be able to remember what to do or how to defend yourself; you'd rather not think about the possibility of being raped; you or someone you know has been raped, and you want to forget about it. These are precisely the reasons you should read this book. Rape, and our society's attitude toward rape, affects every woman in this country. No woman, whether or not she has ever felt threatened by an actual rape, can ignore the problem.

FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX: NEW YORK. 1974. 136p.