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.
