Hunting Troubles: Gender and Its Intersections in the Cultural History of the Hunt

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: A Machinery of Difference: The Gender Histories of the Hunt—Volume Introduction
	Bibliography
Section I: Men’s Worlds
	Chapter 2: Introduction: Men’s Worlds? Hunting for Hegemony
		Cold Opening
		Man the Hunter?
		Hunting Semiotics
		Hunting Hegemony
		Hunting Liminality
		Predator Versus Prey: Hunting After Men?
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Hunting and the Making of the (Hu)man in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		Introduction
		Man/Woman/Animal: Blurring Categories
		The Dream of a Man: Masculinity in the Making
		Masculine Wholeness and the Fragmentation of the Other
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Male Bonding, Self-Fashioning, and Virile Creativity: Artists as Hunters in the Nineteenth Century
		Introduction
		Male Bonding
		Shaping Masculinity
		Virile Creativity
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Predators and Prey: Entanglements of Masculinity, Power, and Desire in Horst Stern’s Novella The Last Hunt
		Writing Against European Trophy-Hunting Culture
		The Erotic Desire of the Hunt
		Trophy Hunting, the Cult of Masculinity, and the Camouflage of Environmental Discourse
		When Predators Become Prey: Empathy, Anthropomorphism, and the End of the Hunt
		Human and More-than-Human Animals: Chasing a Haunting Western Dichotomy
		Bibliography
Section II: Women on the Hunt
	Chapter 6: Introduction: Women on the Hunt—Observations on Female Features and Social Distinctions Throughout Hunting History
		A Question of Rank: Female Features of the Hunt
		Observations on Gendered Distinctions of the Hunt
		The “Noble” Techniques: Hunting and Hawking
		Shooting
		Knowledge and Instruction
		Final Remarks
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: Diana in Amazonian Dress: Fashioning the French Huntress in the Mercure Galant, 1679–1713
		Introduction
		Courtly Huntresses
		Provincial Huntresses
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: Sport-Hunting Women in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Agents of Cultural and Political Change
		Introduction
		From Food and Market to Sport Hunting
		The New Sport-Hunting Woman
		Women Hunters in Outdoor Magazines
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Killing Like a Girl: The Autobiographical Self-Fashioning of Female Hunters in Contemporary European Literature
		Introduction
		De Bok’s Buit: Hunting with Lipstick and a Rifle?
		Joel’s Jagd: Hunting Without Killing?
		Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk: Killing Is Caring?
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Section III: Female, Male, and Other Animals
	Chapter 10: Introduction: Hunting Animals and Multispecies Entanglements—Counter-Narratives of Agency and Empathy from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
		Introduction
		Writing a Non-anthropocentric Cultural History of Hunting
		Hunting and Multispecies Entanglements
		Poetic Multispecies Entanglements as Hunting Critique
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: Hunters as Prey: Animal Poetics in the Myth of Actaeon and Artemis and Its Rewritings
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: “Wild for to Hold Though I Seem Tame”: The Paradox of the Phallic Female in Falconry Imagery
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: His Hunting Troubles: Contemporary Indigenous Identity and the Prey’s Revenge in Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians
		Bibliography
Section IV: Hunting Practices
	Chapter 14: Introduction: Hunting Animals and Doing Gender in Historical Perspective
		Introduction
		Doings and Sayings: Hunting and Gender in a Praxeological Perspective
		Practical Knowledge: Hunting Practices in the Longue Durée
		Sociable Men and Shooting Women: Hunting and Gender at Court
		(De)gendering Animals: Fallow Deer, Falcons, and Other Creatures
		Ending with Ambiguities: The Rise of the Male (and White) Shooting Hunter
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 15: Prince(ss)ly Practice: Gender Roles and Courtly Hunting Activities in the Early Modern Period
		Introduction
		Feminine Communication as Performance
		Hunting Properties
		Hunting Tools
		Hunting Animals
		Hunting in Company
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
			Archival Collections
			Scholarly Literature
	Chapter 16: Constructing Masculinities: Bear Hunting in Tsarist Russia Toward the Fin de Siècle
		Totemist Taboos and Indigenous Prowess
		From Courtly Spectacle to Royal Prey
		A Pinnacle and Turning Point of Representational Practices
		Concluding Remarks
		Bibliography
			Archival Collections
			Literature
	Chapter 17: Melancholic Mourning: The Hunt Breakfast by Gustave Courbet Within the Context of Hunting Culture During the Second Empire in France
		Courbet’s Hunt Breakfast: Composition and Content
		The Practices of Hunting Meals
		The Personnel Composition of Hunting Parties and Hunting Meals
		Courbet’s Hunt Breakfast as a Comment on the Bourgeois Appropriation of Courtly Hunting Rituals
		Bibliography
Section V: Intersectional Perspectives
	Chapter 18: Introduction: Put in the Shadows—On the (In)visibility of Black Women in Hunting
		Bibliography
	Chapter 19: Beyond the Hunt: On the Ambiguous Depiction of Hunting Great Apes in the Light of Colonialism
		Introduction: Travelogues and the Colonial Agenda
		The Gendered Hunt: Construction of the Other
		Unsettling Boundaries
		Echoes: Narrative Agency
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 20: Au Repos de la Chasse: Hunting Picnics and Transgressive Sociability in Fête Galante Paintings Between Intersectionality and Copresence
		Introduction
		Pater’s Social Masquerades
		Lancret’s Ambiguous Relations
		Sociability, Intersectionality, and Copresence
		Bibliography
	Chapter 21: Sovereigns, Breadwinners, and Slayers: The Huntress in Popular Culture
		Hunting Women: A Brief Introduction
		Hunting in the Territory of Natural Order: 1940s Jungle Queens
		“Who run the world?”: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Grrrl Power in the 1990s
		Hunting, Hunted, Haunted: Katniss Everdeen
		Who Cares?
		Bibliography
Index