"David Nibert's work has established him as a preeminent scholar of critical animal studies and vegan sociology. His intersectional approach has inspired countless scholars over the past quarter of a century and continues to inform the field with a conscientious feminist approach rooted in powerful historical evidence, political analysis, and linguistic resistance. This latest contribution interrogates the most fundamental, if uncomfortable, variables in social oppression, that being the toxicity of hegemonic masculinity and the horrifying legacy of violent patriarchy. Too often, historical accounts of unequal social relations remain gender- and species-neutral, obscuring the stronghold that human masculinity has held over women and other minoritized humans, fellow animals, and the environment to the ultimate detriment of social wellbeing and propensity for progress. Nibert's account of global malev(i)olence is a reckoning with masculinity's rampant destruction, tracing with excruciating detail its multifaceted efforts to accumulate power, knowledge, and control over reality itself. To reclaim peace for the people and salvage the world for a habitable future, Nibert urgently calls for an unabashed confrontation with patriarchy wherever it manifests, championing a symbiotic, anti-hierarchical, and care-based approach to multispecies social life in its wake. Readers are invited to embrace a post-patriarchal eco-consciousness with enticing and thought-provoking vegan feminist wordsmithery that interrogates the normalization of unequal social relations in the very language we use to understand it. This is the book we've been waiting for. Its robust political sociology and attention to historical detail beautifully complements an existing literature of vegan feminist thought that has been coalescing for many decades now."

Dr. Corey Wrenn, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Kent, Past Chair, Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association, Co-Founder, International Association of Vegan Sociologists