TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - From gun politics to self-defense politics: a feminist critique of the great gun debate
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Carlson, Jennifer D.
SP  - 369
EP  - 377
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801214526045
ID  - ref1
ER  -