Feminist Animal Studies: Theories, Practices, Politics

ISBN-13: 9781032120065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Cudworth, Erika

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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