The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is a diverse and intersectional collection which examines human and more-than-human animal relations, as well as the interconnectedness of human and animal oppressions through various lenses.
Comprising fifty chapters, the book explores a range of debates and scholarship within important contemporary topics such as companion animals, hunting, agriculture, and animal activist strategies. It also offers timely analyses of zoonotic disease pandemics, mass extinction, and the climate catastrophe, using perspectives including feminist, critical race, anti-colonial, critical disability, and masculinities studies.
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is an essential reference for students in gender studies, sexuality studies, human-animal studies, cultural studies, sociology, and environmental studies.
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: Why Gender and Animals?
Chloe Taylor
PART I
Theoretical Foundations
1 Ecofeminism
Greta Gaard
2 Feminized Protein
Carol J. Adams
3 Animals, Feminist Care Theory, and Critical Standpoint Theory: An Interview with Josephine Donovan
4 Queering Animal Liberation: 20 Thoughts Toward Interspecies Solidarity
pattrice jones
5 Analogy and Alterity
Jessica Eisen
PART II
Intersectional Veganisms
6 Feminist Veganism
Karen S. Emmerman
7 Black Veganism(s): A Personally Guided Exploration
Nekeisha Alayna Alexis
8 The Skins I’m In
Carrie Lou Hamilton
9 Vegan Camp: An Interview with Emelia Quinn
10 Veganism and Disability in Catastrophic Times
Chloe Taylor
PART III
Feminist Ethics and Care
11 Animal Sanctuaries as Feminist Care Activism
Elan Abrell
12 Feminist Legal Systems That Benefit Animals: Placing Parameters Around Care and Relationality
Maneesha Deckha
13 Entangled Subjectivity: On Care Ethics and Service Dogs
Stephanie Jenkins
14 Shelters
Rebecca Deutsch
15 Wild Animal Ethics: A Gender-Sensitive Perspective
Catia Faria
PART IV
Feminist Multispecies Methods
16 Care as Method for Multispecies Ethnographies
Pablo P. Castelló
17 Feminist Methodology and Multispecies Ethnography
Kelly Struthers Montford and Chloe Taylor
18 Feminism and Multispecies Methods: An Interview with Kathryn Gillespie
19 Possibilities and Productive Failures: Feminist Methodologies and Animal Subjects
Lauren Corman
20 Unruly Faces in Suburban Places: A Practice in Multispecies Autoethnography
Melissa Plisic
PART V
Transfeminisms, Women, and Animals
21 Antispeciesist Transfeminisms in Latin America
Juan Jose Ponce Leon
22 Furious and Ferocious Forms: A Cartography of Antispeciesist and Posthumanist Transfeminisms From the Global South
Anahi Gabriela Gonzalez
23 Re-Aestheticizing the Mind: Art, Feminisms, and Animals in Los Angeles (1970s-1980s)
Emilie Blanc
24 Requiem for Tia Maria
Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
25 Crazy Cat Lady
Alison Suen
PART VI
Masculinities and Animals
26 The Homoxenoerotics of Elephant Crime and Captivity in India
Naisargi N. Dave and Alok H. Gupta
27 The Homoerotics of Trophy Hunting
Sal Renshaw
28 A Feminist Rubik’s Cube: Slaughterhouse Labour, Violence, and Multispecies Trauma
Lauren Corman
29 Ecomasculinities, Boyhoods and Critical Animal Pedagogy
Richard Twine
30 Gender and Animals Under Brahminical Patriarchy
Rama Ganesan
PART VII
Gender and Animals in Folklore and Fiction
31 From Folklore to Factory Farms: Gender, Sex and Chickenkind
Annie Potts
32 Gothic Snakes: Snake Handling, Snake Women and a Post-Secular Serpentine Practice
Sue Hall Pyke
33 Masculinity and Multispecies Labour: A Feminist Animal Studies Reading of In the Skin of the Lion
Tessa Wotherspoon
34 Margaret Atwood’s Dairyscape
Emelia Quinn
35 A Hut of Her Own
Deborah Slicer
PART VIII
Activism and Advocacy
36 Animal Resistance
Tim Reijsoo
37 Women’s Contributions to the Movements for Animal Protection and Rights
Katja M. Guenther
38 The Repression of Animal Activism: An Interview With Tayler Zavitz
39 Sexism in Animal Activism: The Foie Gras Campaigns
Corey Wrenn
40 Racism and Anti-Racism in Animal Advocacy
Darren Chang
PART IX
Multispecies Justice
41 A Grateful Acknowledgement: Gender Theory and Multispecies Justice
Danielle Celermajer and Darren Chang
42 Two-Spirit Feminism and Indigenous Ecological Governance
Margaret Robinson
43 Pronouns in More-Than-Human Worlds and Indigenous and Colonial Law
e Campbell
44 Racial Justice, Animal Justice: An Interview With Claire Jean Kim
45 Transformative Justice for Animals: Lessons From Anti-Carceral Feminism
Kelly Struthers Montford, Darren Chang and Selingul Yalcin
PART X
Multispecies Futures
46 Queer Futures and Mutual Aid
Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny
47 Zoonosis
Tessa Laird
48 Elachistocene vs. Anthropo-Scenes: Inheriting an Epoch Defined by Mass Extinction
Dylan Hall
49 De-Extinction
jessie l. beier
50 Composting Life-Death Time
Danika Jorgensen-Skakum
Index
Biography
Chloë Taylor is a feminist philosopher, critical animal studies scholar, and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of three monographs, co-editor of five previous books, and founder of the North American Association for Critical Animal Studies.
