Stereotypes In Annie Oakley, Gender, And Guns

Excitement ripples through the crowd as a short, brown haired women walks into the arena. Bang! Countless glass balls and clay pigeons fall to the ground in just a few seconds. The stadiums roared with cheers from the stunned audience. The legendary Annie Oakley had done it again. Known for her amazing skill of sharpshooting, Oakley was a star of the West and one of the most famous woman in the world during her time. Annie Oakley defined and impacted society by challenging traditional roles of men and women, amazing many people by her extraordinary talent of marksmanship, and displaying her skill throughout the world.

Annie Oakley is a famous american sharpshooter and apart of Buffalo Bill´s Wild West Show.Oakley is also known as ¨Little Sure Shot .¨

Shortly after Oakley started bringing in more income for her family, members of her community began noticing her talent. As Kim-Brown explains, Oakley competed in many local sharpshooting competitions and won almost all of them, shocking any who watched her When a wildly famous sharpshooter came into town, a local challenged him to a competition against sixteen-year-old Oakley. He agreed and was shocked when he saw Oakley was the one who was his challenger (15). The competition consisted of shooting clay pigeons, Oakley shot twenty-five and Butler shot twenty-four (Oakley, Annie 168). After this competition, Oakley and Butler wrote letters to each other constantly and became romantically involved.

Annie Oakley Do you know the real Annie Oakley? Annie Oakley was an amazing woman. She inspired other women to go outside their comfort zone. She didn’t stay inside the house and watch the kids or cook like the women were supposed to do back in the 1860’s.

Her expert ability with guns led her to teach other women to shoot. Oakley claimed to have “taught nearly 15,000 women how to shoot” and believed that “women [could] shoot as well as men.” She advocated that women needed to know how to defend themselves. Oakley argued that teaching women to shoot, even though they would not be involved in wars, was an important skill. Even though Oakley was teaching women a masculine skill, society saw the idea of women teaching other women a way to redeem women. Oakley may have seen this choice as another way to bring another touch of femininity into her

Suppose you were a poor girl shooting game to feed your family, just to soon become known as an amazing sharpshooter. That same thing happened to Annie Oakley, a female sharpshooter in the 1800s. She rose to fame through her performances and her reputation spreading across the globe. Some have wondered how this happened so quick. Even though many people may not have heard of Annie Oakley, she is an example of someone who overcame difficult times in her life by being helpful, brave, and generous.

Her reputation as a shameless flirt amongst the five failed marriages and the newspaper scandal, led her no other choice but to hide behind her new persona as Princess Wenona. While Smith’s abilities with a firearm rivaled those of Annie Oakley, rather than use her influence as a way to help society, Smith used it as a way to try to get what she wanted which led her only to get the opposite. As Smith tried to use her charm and to sexuality to have her career surpass that of Oakley, her efforts back fired and led her to only be remembered as the rival of Annie Oakley. These two women’s skills became known to the entertainment side of society and the joy their performances brought to people is what made them so popular, but sharp shooting skills had more to offer than just an entertainment

Carl Linnaeus stated in his book, Systema Naturae, that “for if the name be lost, the knowledge of the object is lost also.” How would we be talking about evolution if the hundreds of evolutionary theories were not classified or categorized under evolution? As professor Hothem explained in lecture, if we don’t have “name” then, we can’t talk about it. Therefore, classification is important in order to enable interpretation and define what we know. However, if classification is exercised uncritically, it brings stereotypes into our society such as role of women vs. men. The reading “Shooting Down Man the Hunter” by Rebecca Solnit explains how the society classified women as dependent, idle, and taker for a long time. The author describes that

Throughout the 1800’s, countless children suffered from loss of family and lack of income. The Moses family went through numerous hard times together, struggling to keep their family together. Annie (Phoebe) Moses, who later called herself Annie Oakley, was a young sharpshooter with a gift and a dream who changed sports and women’s rights for centuries to come. Even though Annie Oakley experienced much adversity through her life, it shaped her into an extraordinary woman who taught others to be bold. "The loss of their father and husband was a huge blow to the Moses family - and not just emotionally.

The sports world has been a new area where women are recognized. In previous times women’s sports were almost non-existent. In schools many girl teams did not receive adequate funds for uniforms and equipment. Boys sports were much more popular, such as football or basketball. If a girl wanted to play a guy sport she would be labeled as a

In “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” Joan W. Scott provides many angles to explore the relevancy of gender. The first thing that needs to be examined is her argument. The main argument that Joan W. Scott is trying to make is how beneficial to history using gender as a category for analysis would turn out. Another factor that needs to be made in assessing her article is how she presents her argument and findings. Scott formats her article with a beginning, middle, and end. She begins by defining “gender,” and how that term has been used in general. She goes on to describe some of the theories that have analyzed gender. The next part that she explains is how, of late, politics has been coincided with the analysis of gender. Finally, she ends her paper by providing her bottom-line opinion about the analysis and approach of gender.

Gender classification is a predominant topic within today’s sports and is most broadly understood through the portrayals of sports media. Through overt and covert ways, sports media has continued to promote a masculine representation of sports (Millington & Wilson, 2010; Messener, Duncan, & Jensen, 1993). By understanding the way in which sports media portrays sports, one can recognize how masculinity has dominated the world of sports. With the aid of two unique studies of sports media, this paper will critique the way in which media has effected the gendered depiction of sports.

Anne Oakley, a renowned feminist, states “Despite a reduction of gender differences in the occupational world in recent years, one occupational role remains entirely feminine: the role of the housewife”. Numerous male politicians would have their supporting wife doing the housework and raising the children. Using Anne Oakley’s theory, a female politician could be assumed to have a political career, household chores, childcare responsibilities and also supporting their partner’s career. Anne has also theorized “The equation of femaleness with housewifery is basic to the structure of modern

Judith Lorber is able to convey many of her ideals about our contemporary conceptions of gender in her essay, ?The Social Construction of Gender.? Not only does she clearly express her opinions on the roles of physiological differences of the male and female bodies, but she also elaborates on the roles of the mass media and professional sports among other things. It rapidly becomes clear that there are many legitimate arguments that support this movement for near or complete equality in genders and the roles that they perform.

In the last one hundred years women have made tremendous inroads in many facets of life. Of that there can be little doubt. Women may now hold jobs, own property and participate in professional sports. Today women can compete in sports, once a vestige of male domination; there is now room for women in that arena. But even today women in sports are not portrayed in the same light as their male counterparts. To a large degree this is because of today's cultural ideal of women.