The animals reader : the essential classic and contemporary writings / edited by Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald

Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
Physical Description: xvi, 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Creators: Kalof, Linda and Fitzgerald, Amy J.

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The history of animals / Aristotle -- Principles of morals and legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- In defense of slavery / Marjorie Spiegel -- Animal liberation or animal rights? / Peter Singer -- The rights of humans and other animals / Tom Regan -- The moral status of animals / Martha Nussbaum -- Becoming-animal / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- An apology for Raymond Sebond / Michel de Montaigne -- From the letters of 1646 and 1649 / René Descartes -- Speaking for dogs / Clinton R. Sanders, Arnold Arluke -- Wild justice and fair play : cooperation, forgiveness, and morality in animals / Marc Bekoff -- Grief, sadness, and the bones of elephants / Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy -- Orangutan cultures and the evolution of material culture / Carel P. van Schaik ... [et al.] -- The hunter-gatherer prehistory of human-animal interactions / Steven Mithen -- Animal planet / Harriet Ritvo -- Animal pets : cruelty and affection / Yi-Fu Tuan -- The eating of flesh / Plutarch -- Brave new farm? / Jim Mason, Mary Finelli -- The sexual politics of meat / Carol J. Adams -- The promotion of "meat" and its consequences / David Nibert -- Combats of elephants / Pliny the Elder -- On being human in the bullfight / Garry Marvin -- Dogfighting : symbolic expression and validation of masculinity / Rhonda Evans, DeAnn Kalich (Gauthier), Craig J. Forsyth -- Zoo spectatorship / Randy Malamud -- Hunting and humanity in western thought / Matt Cartmill -- Why look at animals? / John Berger -- The totemic illusion / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Animals as tradition / Boria Sax -- What is the postmodern animal? / Steve Baker -- The illumination of the animal kingdom : the role of light and electricity in animal representation / Jonathan Burt -- The brown dog riots of 1907 / Coral Lansbury -- Into the laboratory / Lynda Birke -- Hybrid geographies : rethinking the "human" in human geography / Sarah Whatmore -- Dolly's body : gender, genetics, and the new genetic capital / Sarah Franklin -- Cyborgs to companion species : reconfiguring kinship in technoscience / Donna Haraway.

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1845204697 (hbk.)
9781845204693 (hbk.)
1845204700 (pbk.)
9781845204709 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (page [375]) and index.

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