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Summary: A Powerful Apologist for the Predatory Nature of Humankind
Review: Professor Stange has written a unique book, half paeon to the hunt, half academic feminist tract. Seldom in the world of field sport has so incisive an intellect been brought to bear on the question of human hunting and come down squarely on the side of Mankind the Predator. Those men who go hunting primarily to escape from the eye of their women are likely to be offended by her condemnation of the sportsman as macho troglodyte. For those of us who rejoice in the chance to share the emotional fire of pursuit with all who would enjoy it, this book comes as a delight. Probably the finest book on the subject of the decade.
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Summary: A Truly Misguided Book
Review: This author completely overlooks the fact that the women's rights movement is about ending violence, not promoting it. It seems Stange wants us to believe that we cannot be equal to men unless we are just like them. I wanted to laugh at first, then cry. This book represents the ultimate misguided use of the term feminist.
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Summary: PATHETIC
Review: This book is a pathetic source of, inaccurate, information about women and animals. Save your money.
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Summary: A fine, original work
Review: We are not that far removed from the time when we were all hunters, and Mary Zeiss Stange understands that better than most. How refreshing to read a book on hunting by a feminist! Too often we hear "Men are hunters and women are gatherers." This book shows how the hunting spirit lies within us all.Stange is an observant hunter and a skilled writer. She understands the hunt, a very rare perception in this world of post-modern nitwits who don't understand where their meals come from, let alone the basic life cycles. I doubt this book's biggest detractors have even read it. Read it with an open mind, and learn to see the world through the only eyes we possess...the eyes of hunters.
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Summary: A fine, original work
Review: We are not that far removed from the time when we were all hunters, and Mary Zeiss Stange understands that better than most. How refreshing to read a book on hunting by a feminist! Too often we hear "Men are hunters and women are gatherers." This book shows how the hunting spirit lies within us all. Stange is an observant hunter and a skilled writer. She understands the hunt, a very rare perception in this world of post-modern nitwits who don't understand where their meals come from, let alone the basic life cycles. I doubt this book's biggest detractors have even read it. Read it with an open mind, and learn to see the world through the only eyes we possess...the eyes of hunters.
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Summary: A Truly Misguided Book
Review: What a solution? Why didn't I think of it before? We can achieve equality be killing! Never mind that violence towards women in this country is out of control. Who cares that rape goes down during hunting season. What we need to do is kill too! There, I spared you all the pain I endured. Don't buy this book!
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Summary: Feminism Hits A New Low
Review: What a solution? Why didn't I think of it before? We can achieve equality be killing! Never mind that violence towards women in this country is out of control. Who cares that rape goes down during hunting season. What we need to do is kill too! There, I spared you all the pain I endured. Don't buy this book!
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Summary: Excellent academic overview of under-researched subject
Review: Whether individual men, women, academics, or feminists like the fact,human beings are predators. Whether we stalk our own food or allow others to provide it for us is an issue that is one of the focal points of the controversy surrounding the sport and psychology of hunting. Currently there is virtually no scientifically credible psychological research on the reasons why people continue to hunt. Certainly polemics are readily available from animal rights activists and others who fail to take into consideration that wearing leather, eating meat raised for the purpose of food, or maintaing a vegan diet which ultimately results in more animals losing their lives through the destruction of their own natural hunting grounds to human cultivation of edible plants, are actions not necessarily on a higher, simply a different, moral plane. To eschew any form of hunting would so entirely eliminate sources of food and clothing (for to take the argument that humans should not use animals as a source of food to its logical conclusion would also require the position that animals are not superior to plants, thus plants should also should not suffer from exploitation) that it would require that critics make their comments sitting naked at the computer. The reality is that the largest growing group of hunters is women. In the anecdotes Stange employs to introduce each chapter, nonhunters who are willing to keep an open mind are introduced to the powerful emotional and bonding aspects (among hunters) of the hunt, as well as the importance of the strong ethical principles and discipline required of hunters. This book is an honest, rigorous investigation of the various myths which have been employed to maintain the image of women as somehow purer and morally superior to men in the feeding of their families, and takes an important look at the lengths to which ideologies will go to interpret ancient evidence through the more ideologically convenient lens of 20th century stereotypes. A truly excellent book.
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