@article{ref1,
title=""What real empowerment looks like": white rage and the necropolitics of armed womanhood",
journal="Signs",
year="2021",
author="Light, Caroline E.",
volume="46",
number="4",
pages="911-937",
abstract="Rage-fueled appeals to women's armed empowerment drive a market in civilian-owned firearms and related commodities while fortifying deregulatory gun policy. Drawing from Achille Mbembe's (2003) concept of necropolitics, I unpack the intersecting racial and gender logics of women's armed response to patriarchal violence as a means by which the state &quot;attribute[s] rational objectives to the very act of killing.&quot; In spite of its facial appeals to all women's empowerment, the &quot;good woman with a gun&quot; remains an exclusionary trope that neutralizes women's rage in the service of deregulatory governance and the efficient, cost-effective outsourcing of state violence. The emphasis on stranger danger masks the number-one threat to women's safety--their own male acquaintances and intimate partners--while effacing the disproportionate impact of structural violence on Black, Brown, and Indigenous women and girls.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0097-9740",
doi="10.1086/713302",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/713302"
}