1st Edition
Science, Gender and the Exploitation of Animals in Britain Since 1945
Introduction: Accounting for the More-Than-Human
Section One: Law, Animal Welfare and Gender
1. British Animal Experimentation Law since 1945: Property, Pastoral Power and Governmentality
2. The March of Thatcherism: Neoliberal Laboratory "Care" and the Assent of the ASPA, 1981-1986
3. The Power-Pain Nexus: How Women’s Subjugation Subtends Speciesism in the Legal System
Section Two: Scientific Intersections: The Practice of Animal Experimentation and Its Gendered Dimensions
4. Animal Experimentation at Porton Down: Britain’s Military-Animal-Industrial Complex, 1948-1955
5. Containing the Laboratory Animal: Laboratory Spaces and Gendered Places, 1947-Present
6. Anxious Animals, Monstrous Menstruating Women and the Science of Stress 1947-Present
Section Three: Conclusion: 21st Century Compassion Fatigue
Conclusion
Biography
Catherine Duxbury is a Visiting Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Studies Centre in the School of Philosophy and Art History of the University of Essex, and a teacher at University Centre Colchester, Essex, UK.
