The “True Man” and His Gun: On the Masculine Mystique of Second Amendment Jurisprudence

The Supreme Court’s recent Second Amendment jurisprudence raises serious normative questions for the use of self-defense with a firearm. This jurisprudence also implicates our prevailing social norms with respect to socially constructed and structurally pervasive gender roles. I argue that a peculia...

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1. VerfasserIn: Christensen, C. D. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2017
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