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Beasts of Burden - Animal and Disability Liberation (Hardcover)
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Beasts of Burden - Animal and Disability Liberation (Hardcover)
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A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the
intersection of animal and disability liberation—and the debut of
an important new social critic How much of what we understand of
ourselves as “human” depends on our physical and mental
abilities—how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the
world? And how much of our definition of “human” depends on its
difference from “animal”? Drawing on her own experiences as a
disabled person, a disability activist, and an animal advocate,
author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply, and sometimes
uncomfortably, about what divides the human from the animal, the
disabled from the nondisabled—and what it might mean to break down
those divisions, to claim the animal and the vulnerable in
ourselves, in a process she calls “cripping animal ethics.”
Beasts of Burden suggests that issues of disability and animal
justice—which have heretofore primarily been presented in
opposition—are in fact deeply entangled. Fusing philosophy, memoir,
science, and the radical truths these disciplines can bring—whether
about factory farming, disability oppression, or our assumptions of
human superiority over animals—Taylor draws attention to new worlds
of experience and empathy that can open up important avenues of
solidarity across species and ability. Beasts of Burden is a
wonderfully engaging and elegantly written work, both philosophical
and personal, by a brilliant new voice.
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