Species Matters : : Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory /

Species Matters : : Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory / / ed. by Michael Lundblad, Marianne DeKoven.

Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars have resisted arguments that add "species" to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Carol J.,
Cavalieri, Paola,
DeKoven, Marianne,
Grandin, Temple,
Haraway, Donna,
Lundblad, Michael,
Nussbaum, Martha C.,
Waal, Frans de,
Wolfe, Cary,
HerausgeberIn:
DeKoven, Marianne,
Lundblad, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Animality and Advocacy
  • 1. Species Matters, Humane Advocacy
  • 2. Humane Advocacy and the Humanities
  • 3. Consequences of Humanism, or, Advocating What?
  • 4. Archaeology of a Humane Society
  • 5. What Came Before The Sexual Politics of Meat
  • 6. Compassion
  • 7. Down with Dualism!
  • Addendum to Down with Dualism!
  • 8. Avoid Being Abstract When Making Policies on the Welfare of Animals
  • Contributors
  • Index

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