1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals

Edited By Chloë Taylor Copyright 2024
762 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

762 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

762 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Winner of the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 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... Read more

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.

 "The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is an immense achievement. Taylor has done a superb job of acquiring, editing, proofing, and introducing the 50 original chapters in this weighty collection. Representing almost every corner of the Anglophone world, the 49 contributors offer cutting-edge, intersectional thinking on human and more-than-human animal relationships through a variety of critical perspectives, representing, for example, (eco)feminist, critical race, anti-colonial, critical disability, queer, and masculinity studies. In her lengthy introduction, Taylor itemizes several key reasons why it is important to think about issues of gender and animals together, skillfully showing how and why, given the current era of climate catastrophe, we must find paths toward multispecies justice. The collection has nine parts covering theoretical foundations, intersectional veganisms, feminist care ethics, feminist multispecies methods, transfeminisms, masculinities, gender and animals in folklore and fiction, activism and advocacy, multispecies justice, and multispecies futures. This particular Routledge Companion is crucial reading for all scholars and students working in the multidisciplinary field of critical animal studies."
- Piers Beirne, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies at University of Southern Maine, USA