Research Catalog

Title

Animal subjects : an ethical reader in a posthuman world / edited by Jodey Castricano.

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

Castricano, Carla Jodey, 1947-

Description

x, 312 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the discipline has lagged behind on questions of the animal, including those that address animal suffering in factory farming, product testing and laboratory experimentation, and in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. the contributors to Animal Subjects are scholars and writers whose work, from diverse perspectives, calls into question the boundaries that divide humans from animals, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between non-human animals and ourselves. This collection, the first of its kind to feature the work of Canadian scholars and writers in this emergent field, aims to include the non-human animal question as part of the ethical purview of Cultural Studies and to explore the question in interdisciplinary terms."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• Cultural studies series
• Environmental humanities

Uniform Title

• Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
• Environmental humanities.
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Animal rights
• Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects
• Animal welfare
• Animaux > Aspect moral
• Animaux > Droits
• Animaux > Protection
• Human-animal relationships
• Relations homme-animal
• Tierethik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Animal subjects in a posthuman world / Jodey Castricano -- Chicken / Donna Haraway -- Selfish genes, sociobiology and animal respect / Rod Preece -- Anatomy as speech act : Vesalius, Descartes, Rembrandt or the question of "the animal" in the early modern anatomy lesson / Dawne McCance -- A missed opportunity : humanism, anti-humanism and the animal question / Paola Cavalieri -- Thinking other-wise : cognitive science, deconstruction and the (non)speaking (non)human animal subject / Cary Wolfe -- Animals in moral space / Michael Allen Fox, Lesley McLean -- Electric sheep and the new argument from nature / Angus Taylor -- Monsters : the case of marineland / John Sorenson -- "I sympathize in their pains and pleasures" : women and animals in Mary Wollstonecraft / Barbara K. Seeber -- Animals as persons / David Sztybel -- Power and irony : one tortured cat and many twisted angles to our moral schizophrenia about animals / Lesli Bisgould -- Blame and shame? How can we reduce unproductive animal experimentation? / Anne Innis Dagg -- On animal immortality : an argument for the possibility of animal immortality in light of the history of philosophy / Johanna Tito.

ISBN

• 9780889205123
• 0889205124

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library