Description
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.
The collection demonstrates the continued vital importance of feminism – conceptually and theoretically, methodologically and politically – to the development of animal studies. Feminism has made an incisive critique of the ways in which gender and other intersecting differences and inequalities are constitutive of our destructive, exploitative and often violent relationships with nonhuman worlds. An international group of scholars and activists showcase new work, revisiting and extending established debates while negotiating new paths. Amongst the issues addressed in this collection will be questions of animal being and animal rights, caring relations, the relationships between activism and theory, interspecies sexual violence, tension in the animal defence movement around body politics, gender politics and professionalisation, different spaces of gender and animal relations from social media to sexology, safe spaces and sanctuaries, spaces of home – both in times of ‘business-as-usual’ and in times of lockdown.
This multidisciplinary volume will be essential reading to students and academics working in the fields of cultural studies, criminology, geography, history, law, philosophy, politics and sociology, with interest in gender, environmentalism and animal studies.
The editors work in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, and share interests in gender and species violence, environmental harms, social justice matters and intersected inequalities.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Locating Feminist Animal Studies
Erika Cudworth, Ruth McKie and Di Turgoose
PART 1
Engaging theory: Feminisms, species boundaries and intersections
1 Animal rights without animal personhood? Implementing feminist legal reform for animals as legal beings
Maneesha Deckha
2 What are good multispecies relations? An analysis through the concept of caring relations
Maude Ouellette-Dubé
3 The movement of pain in opening and closing possibilities of ethical relations with nonhuman animals
Jonna Håkansson
4 Activist-led theory? Navigating productive frictions across vegan theory and practice
Eva Giraud & Richard White
PART 2
Practice: Doing feminist animal studies
5 Loving and eating animals: a feminist dilemma
Nickie Charles
6 Deadly contagions, vital contagions: Human-animal relationships in the new pandemic age. An Italian case-study.
Federica Timeto
7 ‘She always looked after me’: Revisiting reproductive labour and matters of care with/in companion species
Erika Cudworth
8 For women’s pleasure? Interspecies sexual violence and (feminist) sex research
Annie Potts
9 ‘Well that’s it! I might as well just die now’. Animals and the reinforcement of stereotyped gender representation on social media
Delia Langstone
10 A multispecies safe space? Mapping the rise of farmed bird sanctuaries
Heather Rosenfeld
PART 3
Politics and activism: Feminist animal studies as praxis.
11 Fattening solidarity beyond species: the rebellious (body) politics of fat veganism
Laura Fernández
12 Votes, fur, women: An historical look into Irish ecofeminist veganism
Evelyn Suttle
13 ‘Rescued and loved’: Women, animal sanctuaries and feminism
Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser and Tania Signal
14 Building a vegan feminist network in the professionalized digital age of Third Wave animal activism
Corey Wrenn
