A discussion of the feminist potentials of the armed woman in contemporary popular culture.

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.

»Ladies in Arms stellt einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Diskussion rund um den Feminismus und die Repräsentation von Frauen in den Medien dar. Es ist ein selbstbewusstes und trotzdem bedachtes Werk, welches versucht, verschiedene Perspektiven zu diesem schwierigen und komplexen Thema zu bieten.«

Autorentext
Teresa Hiergeist (Prof. Dr. phil.), geb. 1984, forscht und lehrt an der Universität Wien zu spanischer und französischer Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Ihre Schwerpunkte liegen im Bereich der kognitiven Narratologie, Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in der Frühen Neuzeit und Paragesellschaften seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert. Stefanie Schäfer promovierte in Japanologie an der Freien Universität Berlin. Ihre Forschung befasst sich mit Fragen des kollektiven Erinnerns, insbesondere mit dem Atombombengedenken und seiner touristischen Dimension.

Klappentext
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.