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Woman the Hunter Paperback - 1998
by Stange, Mary Zeiss
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- Title Woman the Hunter
- Author Stange, Mary Zeiss
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-07-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0807046396_new
- ISBN 9780807046395 / 0807046396
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.02 x 0.74 in (22.86 x 15.29 x 1.88 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96039045
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.364
From the rear cover
Woman the Hunter juxtaposes unsettlingly beautiful accounts of the author's own experiences hunting deer, antelope, and elk with an argument that builds on the work of thinkers from Aldo Leopold to Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Exploring how women and men relate to nature and violence, Mary Zeiss Stange demonstrates how false assumptions about women and about hunting permeate contemporary thinking. Traditionalists and feminists alike view hunting as a symbol for men's activity in the world - ignoring the reality of women hunters now and in the past. In fields from anthropology to religion and in movements from environmentalism to feminism, women are often seen as nonviolent and allied with the natural world; men as aggressive and alienated from nature. By bringing Woman the Hunter back into the spotlight, therefore, Stange upsets basic assumptions across the political and intellectual spectrum. Woman the Hunter also challenges the notion that human beings - male or female - are separate from nature, an idea reflected in the environmentalist impulse to keep wilderness safe from people. If instead we see people as part of nature, Stange argues, then hunting takes on symbolic value for us all. We become vividly conscious of our inevitable complicity in animal death, and of how we all fit into the web of life. It is by appreciating the value of hunting that we understand what it means to be human.