France Winddance Twine is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an ethnographer, a critical race theorist, and a documentary filmmaker who earned her degree at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published more than 60 books, journal articles, book reviews, and essays. She is the author and an editor of eight books, including Geographies of Privilege (forthcoming, 2013), A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy (2010), Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (Routledge, 2011), Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century (with Charles Gallagher, Routledge, 2011), and Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice (New York University Press, 2000). She has served as deputy editor of American Sociological Review, the official journal of the American Sociological Association. Twine currently serves on the international editorial boards of the journals Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology, the official journal of the British Sociological Association, and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

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• Preface 1. The Woman’s Gun Market 2. ‘Bad Girls’ in a Gun Nation: Race, Citizenship and Armed Dissidents 3. The Gun Wars: Mothers debate gun regulation 4. Firearms Feminism and Militarized Femininity 5. Mommy Goes to War: The Realities of Military Motherhood 6. Double Jeopardy: Female Soldiers as Sexual Prey 7. Conclusion: Feminism, Femininity and State Violence

France Winddance Twine is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an ethnographer, a critical race theorist, and a documentary filmmaker who earned her degree at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published more than 60 books, journal articles, book reviews, and essays. She is the author and an editor of eight books, including Geographies of Privilege (forthcoming, 2013), A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy (2010), Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (Routledge, 2011), Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century (with Charles Gallagher, Routledge, 2011), and Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice (New York University Press, 2000). She has served as deputy editor of American Sociological Review, the official journal of the American Sociological Association. Twine currently serves on the international editorial boards of the journals Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology, the official journal of the British Sociological Association, and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

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• Preface 1. The Woman’s Gun Market 2. ‘Bad Girls’ in a Gun Nation: Race, Citizenship and Armed Dissidents 3. The Gun Wars: Mothers debate gun regulation 4. Firearms Feminism and Militarized Femininity 5. Mommy Goes to War: The Realities of Military Motherhood 6. Double Jeopardy: Female Soldiers as Sexual Prey 7. Conclusion: Feminism, Femininity and State Violence