Hunting is a complex phenomenon. I examine it from four different perspectives –animal liberation, the land ethic, primitivism, and ecofeminism — and find no moral justification for sport hunting in any of them. At the same time, however, I argue that there are theoretical flaws in each of these approaches. Hunting should be investigated within the broader context of patriarchal social relations between men and women. As an act of violence it constitutes one element of a cultural matrix which is destructive to both women and nature.
