Sexing the Animal in a Post-Humanist World: A Critical Feminist Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367728823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 108 str.

Roslyn Appleby

Opis

This collection of essays unpacks the discursive and embodied relationships between humans and animals, contributing to a more informed understanding of both human-animal relations and the role of language in social processes.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Posthumanism and heteroanimality

2. Sharks and Unloved Others: Why sharks?

3. Shark Arts: Sea monsters, sirens, selkies, and sexualities

4. Surfing with SharkS: Australian frontier masculinity

5. Sharks in Science: Explaining sexuality, naturally

6. Fantasy Sharks: Vagina dentate

7. Predation: Baits, cages and cannibals

8. Conclusion

O autorze

Roslyn Appleby is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of gender and sexuality and she is the author of Men and Masculinities in Global English Language Teaching (Palgrave Macmillan), and ELT, Gender and International Development (Multilingual Matters).