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When women take up weapons for the explicit purpose of killing, they are shattering one of Western cultures oldest taboos. Experienced hunter and teacher Mary Zeiss Stange demonstrates how false assumptions about women and about hunting permeate contemporary thought. Stanges book is a profound critique of our societys evasion of issues that make us uncomfortable. Bibliography.
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Hunting--Philosophy, Hunting--Moral and ethical aspects, Women hunters, Feminism.
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1997
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SK14.S88 1997eb
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306.3/64
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Hunting--Philosophy, Hunting--Moral and ethical aspects, Women hunters, Feminism.
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Woman the Hunter
Mary Zeiss Stange
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Beacon Press 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892
Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
1997 by Mary Zeiss Stange All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
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Credits and Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data can be found on page 249.
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FOR MY PARENTS HER STRENGTH OF SPIRIT, HIS LOVE OF LITERATURE IN MEMORY.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
1 Prologue: Tracks
12
Plants Stand Still, But Animals Move: The Hunting Hypothesis Revisited
21
2 Prologue: In the Snow Queen's Palace
51
Too Good a Heart to be a Killer? The Continuing Adventures of Man the Hunter and Woman the Gatherer
57
3 Prologue: Peaceable Kingdom
78
The Call of the Wild: American Eden and the Domestication of Nature
84
4 Prologue: Elk Hunting at Kill Woman Creek
103
Wilderness, Alienation, and Belonging: Learning to Live without Excuses
116
5 Prologue: Diana's Portion
131
Artemis: She Who Slays
136
6 Prologue: Forest Reflexes
163
Woman the Hunter: Learning to Live New Stories
169
Epilogue: Sister Predator
190
Notes
191
Bibliography
231
Index
243
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Acknowledgments
Eight years ago I wrote a short essay titled "The Woman Who Hunts," which I presented as a work-in-progress at the Rocky Mountain/Great Plains regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion. I never found a publisher for it, though I received several very complimentary rejection letters from editors, and ample encouragement from colleagues who urged me to continue the line of inquiry initiated in that modest paper. Woman the Hunter is the result, and I am deeply grateful to the numerous individuals whose insights and suggestions over the ensuing years have helped this book take shape.
Skidmore College has provided me with a fertile environment for thinking and writing. I owe special thanks to my colleagues in the Department of Philosophy and Religion for our ongoing conversations, as well as for the two departmental colloquia devoted to portions of chapters 2 and 5; I particularly thank Joel Smith and Austin Lewis for agreeing to disagree with me, with such sustained verve and commitment. Colleagues in other departments have been invaluable resources for my interdisciplinary work. I especially thank Susan Bender for important suggestions about where I should be looking in the anthropological literature, Leslie Mechem for consulting about "the slings and arrows of outrageous Artemis," Penelope Ploughman for several pointed and constructive conversations about women and firearms, and John Thomas for explaining what exactly it takes to make a Grand Canyon. Several sister-scholars in the Women's Studies Program read and critiqued the manuscript or parts of it; my thanks especially to Pat Ferraioli, Charlotte Goodman, Mary C. Lynn, and Patricia Rubio. My profound gratitude, too, to Terence Diggory for his very special kind of intellectual support during the past year.
The Skidmore College Faculty Development Committee facilitated my travel to four "Becoming an Outdoors-Woman" workshops, and Phyllis Roth, dean of the faculty, provided supplemental funding that allowed me to stretch a semester's sabbatical leave into the full year that afforded me time to write the bulk
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of the manuscript. My hearty thanks for this material support. Thanks also to our departmental secretary, Mona Clear, for negotiating my numerous long-distance requests for research assistance during my leave year, and to my student assistants Lisa Rowe for chasing down references and constructing the bibliography, and Kristin DeCou for her help with the index. Finally, I must thank the students I have had the privilege of working with over the past six years at Skidmore, in my feminist theory seminar and in courses on women, religion, and spirituality. This book is immeasurably richer for their insights.
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