Andree Collard (1926–1986)
Forfatter af Rape of the Wild: Man's Violence against Animals and the Earth
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- 1926
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- 1986
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- Belgium (birth)
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In the second chapter, the author goes on to compare hunting to rape. Although certainly there are metaphorical similarities, and certainly many people do hunt in a way that fits with her analysis. But many others do not. The author takes the most despicable image of a hunter and generalizes all hunters against this model. Her hatred for hunters seems boundless: she confesses having no sympathy for hunters, seeing them as senselessly brutal, piteously immature, akin to irresponsible little boys, as people who kill for fun and profit. She speaks of them as having a hard-on for killing wildlife. But even in our misogynistic patriarchal culture, not all hunters are like that. There are many hunters who do in fact love and respect the animals that they hunt, and do eat their flesh rather than simply collect trophies. She also criticizes the claim that hunters are conservationists, for instance blaming hunters for the removal of predators such as wolves from forests, claiming these hunters then benefit from the need to "cull the herds". But in fact, surveys in Montana and Michigan have found that more hunters favor wolf reintroduction than oppose it. Opposition to wolf reintroduction comes from ranchers, not from hunters.
In contrast to these first two chapters, I enjoyed the last three chapters immensely. The author takes on the subjects of patriarchal science, taking such forms as animal experimentation, reproductive technology, and pesticides. She argues that we need to "put the ecology back into feminism, to feel as our own the plight of the earth and shout it". Otherwise, we're going to lose: "our planet will continue to run its destructive course and annihilate us all in the name of health, happiness, and progress."… (mere)