Growing up in the 1960s, Nancy Floyd never believed she could join the military or law enforcement and, therefore, be a gun user. But today, little girls grow up witnessing women becoming police officers and fighting in wars.
“I think there’s a real shift happening with women … there is a generation of female warriors,” Floyd says.
Floyd, a local photographer and professor, explored the history of gun use among women, interviewed dozens of female gun owners, and photographed them for her book, “She’s Got a Gun.” Floyd discusses the book with a slideshow at Charis Books & More on Oct. 9.
Floyd’s brother was killed in Vietnam when she was 12, and it was his fascination with guns that led her to buy her first gun.
“For feminists, it’s about women can always do what a man can do — but what does this new role do to us as nurturers and for those who are anti-gun, anti-war?” Floyd asks.
Lesbian Maria Helena Dolan of Atlanta, a member of the Pink Pistols group for gay gun owners, is featured in Floyd’s book.
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