Woman the Hunter

Stange, a teacher and experienced hunter, challenges the traditional assumptions about femininity and masculinity by relating her experiences as a hunter and sharp shooter in the gender debates. It's refreshing to read Stange's arguments about why hunting should be a part of our culture just as it is a part nature, and her ideas about how culture pathologizes female aggression through its theories of evolution, religion, and even feminism. The writing itself eloquently shifts back and forth from cogent critical argument to lyrical descriptions of the hunt, adding to the originality of her thesis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.