Fundamental assumptions about gendered behavior and humanity's relationship to nature are called into question in this extended analysis of hunting by an avid woman hunter and Professor of Religion and Women's Studies at Skidmore College.
Mary Hastings Bradley records the events of a 1921 African safari with her husband, Herbert Bradley, her 5-year old daughter, and her friend, the renowned sculptor and taxidermist Carl Akely. Well into the 20th century, gorillas were more a figure of myth than natural history.
How does it happen that a nice, upper-class city girl, born at the turn of the 20th century and raised to expect a life of pampered luxury, finds herself shivering in a frigid Saskatchewan duck-blind? Her husband, John Borden, was an avid sportsman, and she accepted his invitation to join in the action. So, the early-twentieth-century woman takes ...
For hunters who love the north woods, the past glory of the wilderness is recorded here. Paulina Brandreth, who wrote under the pseudonym Paul Brandreth, was a woman who hunted and photographed deer in the Adirondacks with noted deer hunters Roy Chapman Andrews, General 'Black Jack' Pershing, and Reuben Cary. She began writing for the acclaimed ...
It is estimated that between 11 and 17 million American women use firearms everyday, whether through their jobs, for sport or for personal security. This study analyzes the reasons why so many women possess and use guns, focusing especially on the link between firearms and feminism.
This anthology features outstanding writing by women hunters past and present. Included are popular authors Beryl Markham, Isak Dinesen, Annie Oakley, and others known to readers of outdoor writing--Grace Seton Thompson, Osa Johnson, Mary Jobe Akeley, Eleanor Pruitt Stewart.
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