Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America - Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster - Google Books

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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…