ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |45 pages

Introduction

Why Gender and Animals?

part I|91 pages

Theoretical Foundations

chapter 1|22 pages

Ecofeminism

chapter 2|22 pages

Feminized Protein

chapter 4|12 pages

Queering Animal Liberation

20 Thoughts Toward Interspecies Solidarity

chapter 5|23 pages

Analogy and Alterity

part II|67 pages

Intersectional Veganisms

chapter 6|11 pages

Feminist Veganism

chapter 7|15 pages

Black Veganism(s)

A Personally Guided Exploration

chapter 8|10 pages

The Skins I'm In

chapter 9|15 pages

Vegan Camp

part III|57 pages

Feminist Ethics and Care

chapter 12|15 pages

Feminist Legal Systems That Benefit Animals

Placing Parameters Around Care and Relationality

chapter 13|10 pages

Entangled Subjectivity

On Care Ethics and Service Dogs

chapter 14|12 pages

Shelters

chapter 15|9 pages

Wild Animal Ethics

A Gender-Sensitive Perspective

part IV|61 pages

Feminist Multispecies Methods

chapter 19|13 pages

Possibilities and Productive Failures

Feminist Methodologies and Animal Subjects

chapter 20|11 pages

Unruly Faces in Suburban Places

A Practice in Multispecies Autoethnography

part V|70 pages

Transfeminisms, Women, and Animals

chapter 22|18 pages

Furious and Ferocious Forms

A Cartography of Antispeciesist and Posthumanist Transfeminisms From the Global South

chapter 23|16 pages

Re-Aestheticizing the Mind

Art, Feminisms, and Animals in Los Angeles (1970s-1980s)

chapter 24|11 pages

Requiem for Tia Maria

chapter 25|8 pages

Crazy Cat Lady

part VI|65 pages

Masculinities and Animals

chapter 27|11 pages

The Homoerotics of Trophy Hunting

chapter 28|15 pages

A Feminist Rubik's Cube

Slaughterhouse Labour, Violence, and Multispecies Trauma

part VII|64 pages

Gender and Animals in Folklore and Fiction

chapter 31|10 pages

From Folklore to Factory Farms

Gender, Sex and Chickenkind

chapter 32|15 pages

Gothic Snakes

Snake Handling, Snake Women and a Post-Secular Serpentine Practice

chapter 33|10 pages

Masculinity and Multispecies Labour

A Feminist Animal Studies Reading of In the Skin of the Lion

chapter 34|16 pages

Margaret Atwood's Dairyscape

chapter 35|11 pages

A Hut of Her Own

part VIII|59 pages

Activism and Advocacy

chapter 36|12 pages

Animal Resistance

chapter 38|10 pages

The Repression of Animal Activism

chapter 39|14 pages

Sexism in Animal Activism

The Foie Gras Campaigns

part IX|76 pages

Multispecies Justice

chapter 41|12 pages

A Grateful Acknowledgement

Gender Theory and Multispecies Justice

chapter 44|11 pages

Racial Justice, Animal Justice

chapter 45|12 pages

Transformative Justice for Animals

Lessons from Anti-Carceral Feminism

part X|74 pages

Multispecies Futures

chapter 47|17 pages

Zoonosis

chapter 48|16 pages

Elachistocene vs. Anthropo-Scenes

Inheriting an Epoch Defined by Mass Extinction

chapter 49|14 pages

De-Extinction