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This new edition of Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other
Animals and the Earth begins with an historical, grounding overview
that situates ecofeminist theory and activism within the larger
field of ecocriticism and provides a timeline for important
publications and events. Throughout the book, authors engage with
intersections of gender, sexuality, gender expression, race,
disability, and species to address the various ways that sexism,
heteronormativity, racism, colonialism, and ableism are informed by
and support animal oppression. This collection is broken down into
three separate sections: -Affect includes contributions from
leading theorists and activists on how our emotions and embodiment
can and must inform our relationships with the more-than-human
world -Context explores the complexities of appreciating difference
and the possibilities of living less violently -Climate, new to the
second edition, provides an overview of our climate crisis as well
as the climate for critical discussion and debate about ecofeminist
ideas and actions Drawing on animal studies, environmental studies,
feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics, the ecofeminist
contributors to this volume stress the need to move beyond binaries
and attend to context over universal judgments; spotlight the
importance of care as well as justice, emotion as well as reason;
and work to undo the logic of domination and its material
implications.
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Livestock's Longer Shadow is one the most important books of its
kind since Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines (1964). Most people have
little idea how eating animal-based foods harm animals, our health
and our planet. We want to believe the animals we eat do not suffer
pain, injury, live good lives and eating them is a trade-off for
the care we afford them. We accept the illnesses we suffer are
simply a consequence of getting old. We want to believe our food
choices do not cause rainforest and ocean deforestation. We are
told farmers are the guardians of the countryside, yet our
landscape is over-cultured and biologically dysfunctional, and our
environment polluted by livestock farming. Livestock's Longer
Shadow, cuts through the noise for anyone wanting to know how we
really treat animals, our health and our planet through the ways we
farm and consume animals, through a UK lens. Tim Bailey is an
Environmental Scientist and one of the UK's leading and most
prominent regulatory farm pollution experts. He brings together all
aspects of the UK's animal-based farming and food system, from farm
to fork, documents its devastation and provides us with a kinder,
more compassionate, sustainable and healthier way forward. In
sounding the alarm on the paradigms of animal-based food
production, the author uses his own first-hand experience of the
impacts of livestock farming from a career regulating the industry
spanning over 30-years.
More than a contest of wills representing professional and economic
interests, the animal rights debate is also an enduring topic in
normative ethical theory. 'Defending Animal Rights' addresses the
key isues in this sometimes acrimonious debate.
This is the first book to explore women's leading role in animal
protection in nineteenth-century Britain, drawing on rich archival
sources. Women founded bodies such as the Battersea Dogs' Home, the
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and various groups that
opposed vivisection. They energetically promoted better treatment
of animals, both through practical action and through their
writings, such as Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. Yet their efforts
were frequently belittled by opponents, or decried as typifying
female 'sentimentality' and hysteria. Only the development of
feminism in the later Victorian period enabled women to show that
spontaneous fellow-feeling with animals was a civilising force.
Women's own experience of oppressive patriarchy bonded them with
animals, who equally suffered from the dominance of masculine
values in society, and from an assumption that all-powerful humans
were entitled to exploit animals at will. -- .
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