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Description

Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies explores nonhuman animals’ experiences of gender, physiological sex, and sexuality while in nature and captivity. The contributors analyze nonhuman oppression issues such as reproductive freedom, deconstructing dichotomous thinking, and promoting animal liberation within and beyond the academy. The scholar-activists featured in this collection investigate injustice in news stories, literature, and other media that shape human perceptions and treatment toward nonhumans. Each chapter confronts problematic social constructions of gender, physiological sex, or sexuality by applying literary theory, cultural studies, disability studies, queer studies, ecocriticism, and more to promote justice and equity for nonhuman animals.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Entanglements of Sexuality, Gender, and Species in Critical Animal Studies
Amber E. George

Part I: Challenging Speciesism, Patriarchy, and Heterosexism in Literature

Chapter 1: Animals and the Absent Referent in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Kelly Svoboda

Chapter 2: “the animals and birds were left in peace”: Katharine Burdekin's Queer Utopian Ecology
Sarah D'Stair

Part II: Liberating Nonhumans in the Classroom and Laboratory

Chapter 3: Queering Our Relations with Nonhuman Animals: Multispecies Sexuality Beyond the Laboratory
Mitch Goldsmith

Chapter 4: Teaching to Become Intersectional Allies: Engaged Activism, Ecofeminism, Anarchism, and Building Resistance in the Classroom
Damla Isik

Part III: Disrupting the Gendered and Sexual Violence Against Nonhuman Animals

Chapter 5: The “Unnatural,” “Immoral” Hyena and the Implications for Conservation Strategy
Annika Hugosson

Chapter 6: Humanity and Honeybees: The Inhumane Treatment of Honey Bees and Where

Product details

Published Mar 24 2021
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 236
ISBN 9781793624369
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Amber E. George

Contributor

Sarah D’Stair

Contributor

Amber E. George

Contributor

Mitch Goldsmith

Contributor

Annika Hugosson

Contributor

Jess Ison

Contributor

Damla Isik

Contributor

April Piazza

Contributor

Nathan Poirier

Contributor

Emily Plec

Contributor

Kelly Svoboda

Contributor

Sarah Tomasello

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