RIPON, Wis. –Celebrated author and scholar Mary Zeiss Stange will discuss the history of women and hunting, along with other aspects of a life lived out-of-doors, in her presentation titled “Wilderness (Real and Imagined), and Wild Women” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27 in the Kresge Little Theater, at Ripon College’s East Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

As the author of Woman the Hunter (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997/1998), the first cultural history of the relationship of women and hunting, Stange has gained national recognition as the primary scholar working on the subject today. She has been profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today, and dozens of other national outlets.

Her second book was a collaboration with psychologist Carol K. Oyster, titled Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America (New York: New York University Press, 2000). It deals with women’s various positive relationships with firearms (self-protection, hunting, recreational and competitive shooting, careers like law enforcement and the military). Stange’s third book, Heart Shots: Women Write about Hunting, a critical anthology of historical and contemporary women’s outdoor writing, was published in August 2003 by Stackpole Books. She is also general editor of the “Sisters of the Hunt” series of classic women’s writing about hunting, which Stackpole published from fall of 2003 through 2005. Her next book, Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Ranch, traces the changing realities of high plains ranch life.

She is professor of Women’s Studies and Religion, and director of the Women’s Studies Program at Skidmore College. Stange was the 2004-2005 Edwin R. Moseley Faculty Lecturer at Skidmore, an award which “acknowledges an exemplary level of scholarship and achievement that sets a standard for academic excellence at Skidmore. It is the highest honor that the Skidmore faculty can bestow on one of its own.”

Professor Stange’s visit is sponsored by the Ethical Leadership Program at Ripon College. For more information, contact Dr. David Seligman, seligmand@ripon.edu or 920-748-8316.

About Ripon College
Ripon College, founded in 1851, prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Ripon’s liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education. Ripon has consistently been recognized as a “best value” and “Best 366 College” by The Princeton Review, a “Best Buy in College Education” by Barron’s, a “Best Liberal-Arts College” by Washington Monthly, and is listed among the 160 best schools in the nation by Colleges of Distinction.

Mary Stange