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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Scott MelzerPublisher: New York University Press Imprint: New York University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780814795507ISBN 10: 0814795501 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 01 October 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I Defending Guns, Defending Masculinity 1 Frontier Masculinity, America's ""Gun Culture,"" and the NRA 2 Why a Gun Movement? Part II Talking Guns, Talking Culture War 3 Framing Threats to Gun Rights 4 Under Attack 5 Fighting the Culture WarsPart III Committing to the NRA, Committing to the Right 6 The Politics of Commitment 7 Right and Far-Right Moral Politics 8 The Ties That Bind Epilogue: Tomorrow's NRA Appendix: Studying the NRA Notes Index About the Author"ReviewsMelzer brilliantly integrates deep personal observation with data and theory to construct a three-dimensional portrait of the modern gun rights movement. In a wonderfully written, engaging, and scrupulously fair narrative, Melzer's book makes a major contribution to our understanding of this tumultuous social movement and also happens to be a really good read. Robert J. Spitzer, author of The Politics of Gun Control Melzer takes us inside the NRA to reveal that more than gun control - much more - is at stake: a way of life and a definition of manhood that members feel is disintegrating in their hands... [This is] a book that is both balanced and brave, critical and yet compassionate to men who have so lost their way that their guns offer their last tenuous hold on their identity. Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland Author InformationScott Melzer is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology & Sociology at Albion College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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