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    Laura Browder
    “Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America”

    Thursday
    April 12, 2007
    5    :00 pm
    Pollack Auditorium





    The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have disrupted the popular association of guns and masculinity, spurring debates about women's capabilities for violence as well as their capacity for full citizenship. In Her Best Shot, Laura Browder examines the relationship between women and guns and the ways in which the figure of the armed woman has served as a lightning rod for cultural issues.

    Dr. Browder is associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches in the creative writing program. She is author of Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America and Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities.



    Sponsored by:
    American Studies Department
    Women’s and Gender Studies

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