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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Caroline Light\, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Seni
 or Lecturer\, Studies of Women\, Gender and Sexuality\, Harvard University
 \n\nAbstract: What accounts for the rhetorical power of the recurring trop
 e 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 the armed white woman beca
 me a symbol of virtuous and vulnerable nationhood while addressing the int
 ersecting racial and gender logics that contributed to a national ideal of
  what historian Barbara Cutter calls “innocent violence” in the name of co
 llective self-defense.\n\nBio: Caroline Light is the Director of Undergrad
 uate Studies in the Program in Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at H
 arvard. She has a doctorate in history\, and her work explores the ways in
  which race\, gender\, and region shape collective (mis)memory and archiva
 l silence. Her first book\, That Pride of Race and Character: the Roots of
  Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South (NYU Press\, 2014) discusses how
  gendered and racialized performances of elite\, white cultural capital se
 rved as a critical mode of survival for a racially liminal community of so
 utherners. Her recent book\, Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Lov
 e Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press\, 2017) tracks the history
  of lethal self-defense in the U.S.\, from the duty to retreat to the “sho
 ot first\, ask questions later” ethos that prevails in many jurisdictions 
 today.\n\nPublic Lecture: Thursday\, January 10th\, 2019: 4:00pm\, Arts W-
 215\n	Seminar (registration required): Friday\, January 11th\, 2019: 9:00 a
 m to 11:00am\, Arts W-220\n\nSponsors:\n	Prof. Jason Opal\, Chair History a
 nd Classical Studies McGill University\n	Prof. Charmaine A. Nelson\, Art Hi
 story and Communication Studies\, McGill University\n	Prof. Alanna Thain\, 
 Director\, IGSF\, McGill University\n\n \n
DTSTART:20190110T210000Z
DTEND:20190110T230000Z
LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Speaker Series | Caroline Light “A Good Woman With a Gun: U.S. Myth
 ologies of Race\, Gender\, and Self-Defense”
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/speaker-series-caroline-light
 -good-woman-gun-us-mythologies-race-gender-and-self-defense-292348
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