Carlson Jennifer D
University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Violence Against Women. 2014 Mar;20(3):369-77. doi: 10.1177/1077801214526045. Epub 2014 Mar 30.
This article calls attention to a problematic binary produced by public debates surrounding gun rights and gun control-namely, that women must choose armed self-protection or no self-protection at all. I argue that both anti- and pro-gun discourses, drawing on and reproducing race and class privileges, use assumptions about women's physical inferiority to further their agendas. I highlight how both sides have used guns as the proxy for self-defense and conclude by calling for a shift in public discourse to focus on the broader question of the right to self-defense rather than the narrower question of gun rights.
本文提请注意围绕枪支权利和枪支管制的公开辩论所产生的一个有问题的二元对立，即女性必须在武装自卫和完全不自卫之间做出选择。我认为，支持和反对枪支的话语，利用并再现了种族和阶级特权，通过对女性身体劣势的假设来推进各自的议程。我强调了双方如何将枪支用作自卫的替代物，并呼吁转变公共话语，将重点放在更广泛的自卫权问题上，而不是更狭隘的枪支权利问题上。
