Animals and Women

by Adams, Carol J.; Donovan, Josephine; Birke, Lynda (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822316671
• ISBN10: 0822316676
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This is an outstanding collection. The authors write expertly on the surprisingly intimate relation between attitudes toward animals and women in our culture. From reading their work on pornography, the treatment of 'laboratory' animals, hunting, wife-beating, and factory farming I have learned a tremendous amount. This superbly edited volume makes an important contribution to the cause of animal and human liberation."--Jane Tompkins, Duke University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Sexism/Speciesism: Interlocking Oppressions

Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots

Exploring the Boundaries: Feminism, Animals, and Science

Women Battering and Harm to Animals

License to Kill: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunters' Discourse

Speech, Pornography, and Hunting

Abortion and Animal Rights: Are They Compatible Issues?

Alternative Stories

Beyond Just-So Stories: Narrative, Animals, and Ethics

Thinking Like a Chicken: Farm Animals and the Feminine Connection

Of Wolves and Women

The Power of Otherness: Animals in Women's Fiction

Birds Don't Sing in Greek: Virginia Woolf and "The Plumage Bill"

Taming Ourselves or Going Feral? Toward a Nonpatriarchal Metaethic of Animal Liberation

Speciesism, Racism, Nationalism...or the Power of Scientific Subjectivity

Bibliography of Feminist Approaches to Animal Issues

Notes on Contributors

Index

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