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In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read? How do films, comics, and TV series depict the newly fashionable gunwomen between objectification and feminist empowerment? The contributors to this volume from cultural studies, history and art history examine military memoirs 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.

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Teresa Hiergeist works at the Department of Romance Studies at Universit�t Wien, where she is responsible for French and Spanish literature and culture. She has done research about representations of societies, alternative and parallel communities, human-animal studies as well as queer and gender studies. Stefanie Sch�fer is a visiting Professor of North American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universit�t Erlangen-N�rnberg and a former Marie-Curie fellow at the Universit�t Wien. Her research in North American Studies covers Literary, Feminist, and Gender Studies, Visual and Popular Culture, and Mobility Studies.

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