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Teresa Hiergeist is a professor of French and Spanish literature and cultural studies at the Department of Romance Studies at Universität Wien. Her research focuses on alternative concepts of society and education, imaginations of social and communal cohesion, negotiations of the sacred and spiritual, human-animal relations in literature and culture.
Stefanie Schäfer is a visiting Professor of North American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and a former Marie-Curie fellow at the Universität Wien. Her research in North American Studies covers Literary, Feminist, and Gender Studies, Visual and Popular Culture, and Mobility Studies.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Ladies in Arms. An Introduction 9
The Difference between a Shooting and an Armed Woman 23
Re-Arming an American Heroine 37
Armed Resistance and Femininity 57
The Limits of Empowerment 77
›Don't Retreat, Reload‹ 99
Revenge is »Beautiful« 123
»My Palm and My Trigger Finger Itch, Bitch« 141
»On Thursdays We Shoot« 163
Cowgirling in Thuringia 181
Violence and the Good Women of Bollywood 197
Ladies and Arms 215
Not Citizen-Soldiers but Vigilantes 225
What is a Painter without a Gun? 245
Unpopular Feminism 255
Armed Women as Fascinosum Tremendum 271
Warrior of the Light 293
Authors 317