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DESCRIPTION:Caroline Light “A Good Woman With a Gun: U.S. Mythologies of Ra
 ce\, Gender\, and Self-Defense”\n\nDr. Caroline Light\, Director of Underg
 raduate Studies and Senior Lecturer\, Studies of Women\, Gender and Sexual
 ity\, Harvard University\n\nAbstract: What accounts for the rhetorical pow
 er of the recurring trope of the self-possessed\, heroic\, and implicitly 
 white “good woman with a gun\,” and against whom is she presumed to defend
  herself? This talk will explore some of the early iconography by which th
 e armed white woman became a symbol of virtuous and vulnerable nationhood 
 while addressing the intersecting racial and gender logics that contribute
 d to a national ideal of what historian Barbara Cutter calls “innocent vio
 lence” in the name of collective self-defense.\n\nBio: Caroline Light is t
 he Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Program in Women\, Gender\, an
 d Sexuality Studies at Harvard. She has a doctorate in history\, and her w
 ork explores the ways in which race\, gender\, and region shape collective
  (mis)memory and archival silence. Her first book\, That Pride of Race and
  Character: the Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South (NYU Pre
 ss\, 2014) discusses how gendered and racialized performances of elite\, w
 hite cultural capital served as a critical mode of survival for a racially
  liminal community of southerners. Her recent book\, Stand Your Ground: A 
 History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press\, 
 2017) tracks the history of lethal self-defense in the U.S.\, from the dut
 y to retreat to the “shoot first\, ask questions later” ethos that prevail
 s in many jurisdictions today.\n\nPublic Lecture: Thursday\, January 10th\
 , 2019: 4:00pm\, Arts W-215\n	Seminar (registration required): Friday\, Jan
 uary 11th\, 2019: 9:00 am to 11:00am\, Arts W-220\n\nSponsors:\n	Prof. Jaso
 n Opal\, Chair History and Classical Studies 91������\n	Prof. Char
 maine A. Nelson\, Art History and Communication Studies\, 91������ Universit
 y\n	Prof. Alanna Thain\, Director\, IGSF\, 91������\n\n \n\n \n
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SUMMARY:'A Good Woman With a Gun: U.S. Mythologies of Race\, Gender\, and S
 elf-Defense' Public Lecture
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