Stand your ground: a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense

Author's note : mom the sharp-shooter

Introduction : when good citizenship is armed citizenship

"That great law of nature" : the origins of a selective self-defense culture

Defensive violence and the "true man" : the end of reconstruction

"Mighty power in the hands of the citizen" : justice and true manhood in the western borderlands

"Queer justice" and the sexual politics of lynching

"An American tradition" : the paramilitary response to white supremacist terror and unequal protection

"The stuff of pulp fiction" : unreasonable women, vigilante heroes, and the rise of the armed citizen

Avoiding a "a fate worse than death" : how we learned to stand our ground

Conclusion : legal blindspots and epistemic shifts : self-defense and exclusionary citizenship.