By taking up weapons for the explicit purpose of killing, women are shattering one of Western culture s oldest & most entrenched taboos. The image of a woman armed & dangerous is profoundly threatening to our collective psyche -- & it is rejected by macho males & radical feminists alike. This book juxtaposes unsettlingly accounts of the author s own experiences hunting deer, antelope, & elk with an argument that builds on the work of thinkers from Aldo Leopole to Clarissa Estes. Explores how women & men relate to nature & violence, & demonstrates how false assumptions about women & about hunting permeate contemporary thinking.

Woman the Hunter

Politics & Social Sciences

Mary Zeiss Stange

Sociology

Beacon Press

<p>"My friend shudders at my slaying a rhinoceros, but manages to eat part of an unfortunate sheep immediately afterwards. I wonder if the good lady's words ring true. She may be right, and books on sport and adventure are only for men and boys, the sterner sex. If, therefore, you, reader o' mine, should regard all forms of taking life as unwomanly, read no more . . . We went to Alaska to shoot, and-we shot." --From chapter 1</p>
<p>In the first decade of the twentieth century, Agnes Herbert (ca. 1880-1960) and her cousin Cecily hunted on three continents, and Herbert wrote a book about each excursion. This, her second, traces the story of the women's Alaskan hunt, undertaken in part with two men. The foursome formed two expeditions, sometimes setting up camp together and sometimes going their own ways. The women's trophies included brown bear, walrus, caribou, Dall sheep, and moose; and Cecily bagged herself a husband, as well.</p>

Two Dianas In Alaska (Sisters of the Hunt)

Herbert, Agnes

Shikari, A.

Stackpole Books

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