Lori (Hrsg.) Gruen

Animaladies

Gender, Animals, and Madness

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Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms?Highlighting the frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights activists, this book examines how the madness of our relationships with animals intersects with the madness of taking animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that animaladies are expressive of political and psychological discontent, and the characterization of animal advocacy as mad or crazy distracts attention from broader social unease regarding human exploitation of animal life.While allusions to madness are both subtle and over… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-5013-4216-5
EAN: 9781501342165
Produktnummer: 29845321
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'486 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Lori Gruen is William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, USA, where she is also a professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies. She is co-editor, with Carol J. Adams, of Ecofeminsim: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (Bloomsbury, 2014).Fiona Probyn-Rapsey is Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is author of Made to Matter: White Fathers, Stolen Generations (2013) as well as co-editor of Animal Death (2013) and Animals in the Anthropocene: Critical Perspectives on Non-human Futures (2015).