The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is a diverse and intersectional collection which examines how humans and more-than-human animals interact, 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.
Introduction.
Chloë Taylor
Part One: Theoretical Foundations
1. Ecofeminism.
Greta Gaard
2. Feminized Protein.
Carol Adams
3. Animals, Feminist Care Theory, and Critical Standpoint Theory: An Interview with Josephine Donovan.
4. Queering Animal Liberation.
pattrice jones
5. Analogy and Alterity.
Jessica Eisen
Part Two: Intersectional Veganisms
6. Feminist Veganism.
Karen Emmerman
7. Black Veganism(s): A Personally Guided Exploration.
Nekeisha Alayna Alexis
8. The Skins I’m In.
Carrie Hamilton
9. Vegan Camp: an Interview with Emelia Quinn
10. Veganism and Disability in Catastrophic Times.
Chloë Taylor
Part Three: 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. Care Ethics and Service Dogs.
Stephanie Jenkins
14. Shelters.
Rebecca Deutsch
15. Wild Animal Ethics: A Gender-Sensitive Perspective.
Catia Faria
Part Four: Feminist Multispecies Methods
16. Care as Method.
Pablo Pérez Castelló
17. Feminist Methodology and Multispecies Ethnography.
Kelly Struthers Montford and Chloë 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 Five: Transfeminisms, Women and Animals
21. Antispeciesist Transfeminisms in Latin America.
Juan José Ponce Léon
22. Furious and Ferocious Forms. A Cartography of Antispeciesist and Posthumanist Transfeminisms from the Global South.
Anahí Gabriela González
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 Six: Masculinities and Animals
26. The Homoxenoerotics of Elephant Crime and Captivity in India.
Alok Gupta and Naisargi N. Davé
27. Homoeroticism and Trophy Hunting.
Sal Renshaw
28. A Feminist Rubik’s Cube: Slaughterhouse Labour, Violence, and Trauma.
Lauren Corman
29. Boyhood, Ecomasculinities, and Animal Pedagogy.
Richard Twine
30. Animals and the purity-power dichotomy in the Brahminical Tradition.
Rama Ganesan
Part Seven: Gendered 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.
Susan Pyks
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 Eight: Activism and Advocacy
36. Animal Resistance.
Tim Reijsoo
37. Women’s Contributions to the Movements for Animal Protection and Rights.
38. The Criminalization 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 Activism.
Darren Chang
Part Nine: Multispecies Justice
41. A Grateful Acknowledgement: Gender Theory and Multispecies Justice.
Danielle Celermajer and Darren Chang
42. Indigenous Two-Spirit Feminism and Ecological Governance.
Margaret Robinson
43. Pronouns in More-than-Human Worlds and Indigenous and Colonial Laws.
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, Selingul Yalcin
Part Ten: Multispecies Futures
46. Queer Futures and Mutual Aid.
Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny
47. Zoonosis.
Tessa Laird
48. The Elachistocene vs. Anthropo-Scenes: Inheriting an Epoch Defined by Mass Extinction.
Dylan Hall
49. De-extinction.
Jessie Beier
50. Composting Life-Death Time.
Danika Jorgensen-Skakum
Biography
Chloë Taylor is a feminist philosopher, Critical Animal Studies scholar, and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of three monographs, co-editor of five previous books, and founder of the North American Association for Critical Animal Studies.
