| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America. By Laura Browder. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 287 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3050-5.)

Laura Browder in Her Best Shot provides fascinating insights into a feminized gun culture perhaps little known to academic readers. The oversimplified title does something of a disservice to the complexity and range of Browder's analysis, implying a focus on famous wild West sharpshooters such as Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane. Those female gunslingers shape only a segment of Browder's treatment of armed women and their "enormous symbolic significance in American culture," and the title deflects deserved attention from a project that is much more sophisticated and ambitious in scope (p. 1).

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