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Mary Zeiss Stange's story of running a bison ranch with her husband
in southeastern Montana--on the outskirts of nowhere and
far-from-here--is a narrative of survival in a landscape and a
society at once harsh and alluring. In this series of essays she
illustrates the realities of ranch life at a time when the "New
West" of subdivision, "ranchettes," telecommuting, and tourism
collides with the "True West" of too much, too little, too hard,
and too harsh. This society is molded by the climate, and both run
to extremes, simultaneously unforgiving, often brutal, yet capable
of unalloyed charm and breathtaking beauty. Her stories explore the
myths and realities of ranch life in modern America--the brandings,
rodeos, and demolition derbies that are major events, and the
social, environmental, and political factors at work in shaping the
land and the people. Less memoir than deep history of people and
place, these vivid, naturalistic tales examine the complex
relationships that comprise life in the rural West today.
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.
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