@article{ref1,
title="From gun politics to self-defense politics: a feminist critique of the great gun debate",
journal="Violence against women",
year="2014",
author="Carlson, Jennifer D.",
volume="20",
number="3",
pages="369-377",
abstract="This article calls attention to a problematic binary produced by public debates surrounding gun rights and gun control-namely, that women must choose armed self-protection or no self-protection at all. I argue that both anti- and pro-gun discourses, drawing on and reproducing race and class privileges, use assumptions about women's physical inferiority to further their agendas. I highlight how both sides have used guns as the proxy for self-defense and conclude by calling for a shift in public discourse to focus on the broader question of the right to self-defense rather than the narrower question of gun rights.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-8012",
doi="10.1177/1077801214526045",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801214526045"
}