Feminist Animal Studies (eBook, PDF)

Theories, Practices, Politics
Redaktion: Cudworth, Erika; Turgoose, Di; McKie, Ruth E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores human-animal relations and species-based domination at the intersection of feminism with critique of our domination and exploitation of nonhuman animals, in conversation with power dynamics around coloniality and race, class, sexuality and embodiment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000829952
• Artikelnr.: 66768624

Autorenporträt

Erika Cudworth works in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her research interests include complexity theory, gender and human relations with nonhuman animals, particularly theoretical and political challenges to exclusive humanism. She is the author of Environment and Society (2003), Developing Ecofeminist Theory (2005) and Social Lives with Other Animals (2011); coauthor of The Modern State (2007); Posthuman International Relations (2011) and The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism (2018); and co-editor of Technology, Society and Inequality (2013) and Anarchism and Animal Liberation (2015). Erika's current projects are a book on people's relations with dog companions and a critical reappraisal of the legacy of social theory for posthumanist scholarship. Ruth E. McKie works in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her research interests include climate change counter movement delay and obstruction, environmental social movements, climate change and inequality with a specific focus on Latin America and pet abuse in coercive controlling relationships. Ruth's current projects are a book on the global history of the Climate Change Counter Movement, the development of climate delay and obstruction studies in the Global South and insurance discrimination as it relates to pet abuse in domestic violence. Di Turgoose works in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Di is a subject lead for Domestic Violence and Abuse in the Community and Criminal Justice Division at DMU. Di also researches and lectures in gender studies, victimology and in feminist pedagogy on a range of both taught traditional and professional-based programmes, including criminology, criminal investigation, psychology, probation, social work and teacher training. Di is the Pracademics in Criminal Justice Network Lead. Her current research includes work on insurance discrimination and pet abuse within coercive controlling domestic violence and abuse relationships, where she is exploring protection, intervention, and prevention strategies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Locating Feminist Animal Studies; PART 1 Engaging theory:
Feminisms, species boundaries and intersections; ; 1 Animal rights without
animal personhood? Implementing feminist legal reform for animals as legal
beings; 2 What are good multispecies relations? An analysis through the
concept of caring relations; 3 The movement of pain in opening and closing
possibilities of ethical relations with nonhuman animals; 4 Activist-led
theory? Navigating productive frictions across vegan theory and practice;
PART 2 Practice: Doing feminist animal studies; 5 Loving and eating
animals: a feminist dilemma; 6 Deadly contagions, vital contagions:
Human-animal relationships in the new pandemic age. An Italian case-study.;
7 'She always looked after me': Revisiting reproductive labour and matters
of care with/in companion species; 8 For women's pleasure? Interspecies
sexual violence and (feminist) sex research; 9 'Well that's it! I might as
well just die now'. Animals and the reinforcement of stereotyped gender
representation on social media; 10 A multispecies safe space? Mapping the
rise of farmed bird sanctuaries; PART 3 Politics and activism: Feminist
animal studies as praxis.; 11 Fattening solidarity beyond species: the
rebellious (body) politics of fat veganism; 12 Votes, fur, women: An
historical look into Irish ecofeminist veganism; 13 'Rescued and loved':
Women, animal sanctuaries and feminism; 14 Building a vegan feminist
network in the professionalized digital age of Third Wave animal activism