"He likes playing the hero – I let her have fun shooting". Gender games in the Italian forest during the hunting season. (August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Giacomelli, Stefano; Gibbert, Michael
• Is Part Of: Journal of rural studies. Volume 62(2018)
• Page Start: 164
• Page End: 173
• Publication Date: 2018-08
• Subjects: Sociology, Rural -- Periodicals; Country life -- Periodicals; Rural development -- Periodicals; Land use, Rural -- Planning -- Periodicals; Rural conditions -- Periodicals; Sociologie rurale -- Périodiques; Vie rurale -- Périodiques; Développement rural -- Périodiques; Sol, Utilisation agricole du -- Planification -- Périodiques; Conditions rurales -- Périodiques; Country life; Land use, Rural -- Planning; Rural conditions; Rural development; Sociology, Rural; Periodicals; 307.72
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.08.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0743-0167

Abstract

Highlights: Men and women coproduce their hunting experience in the forest. Men accept women during hunting trips because it allows them to exercise traditional gender roles without reproach. Women accept the subjugation to men's hegemony as a means to not lose social legitimacy in their new domain.