This book develops critical feminist animal and multispecies studies across various societal and environmental contexts. The chapters discuss timely questions broadly related to food and eating, stemming from connections drawn between critical animal studies, feminist theory, and multispecies studies. The themes explored include trans-inclusive ecofeminism, decolonial perspectives to veganism, links between the critique of ableism and animal exploitation, alternatives to dominant Western masculinities invested in meat consumption, and the politics of sex and purity in factory farming. The book explores responses to interlinked forms of exploitation by focusing on sites such as sanctuaries, educational institutions, social media, and animal advocacy.
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Introduction: Critical Feminist Animal and Multispecies Studies
I: Geographies, Boundaries and Relationality
Chapter 1: Naive Boars and Dummy Sows: Porcine Sex and the Politics of Purity
Chapter 2: Eating with a Cow: Feminist Multispecies Ethnography in the Kitchens of the Black Sea High Pastures of Turkey
II: Negotiating Dependency and Care
Chapter 3: Care in a Time of Anthropogenic Problems: Experiences from Sanctuary-Making in Rural Denmark
Chapter 4: Negotiating Disability in Celebrity Cat Lil BUB’s Eating Videos
III: Revisioning the Potential of Education
Chapter 5: Pedagogy of the Consumed: an Integral Feminist Lens on Veganism in Higher Education
Chapter 6: Human Children, Nonhuman Animals, and a Plant-Based Vegan Future
IV: Trans-Formations in Ecofeminist Theory
Chapter 7: Revisiting Ecofeminist Genealogies: towards Intersectional and Trans-Inclusive Ecofeminism
Chapter 8: Ecofeminist Critique of the Milk Industry: from Mammal Mothers to Biocapitalist Bovines
V: Veganism and Possibilities for Resistance
Chapter 9: Men’s Veganism: a Pathway towards More Egalitarian Masculinities?
Chapter 10: Staying with the Trouble in Cat Advocacy: Donna Haraway, Vegan Politics, and the Case of Cat Food
Chapter 11: Fractured Locus: Resistances in the Global South and a Decolonial Ecofeminist Anti-Speciesist Praxis
VI: Intersectional Animal Activisms
Chapter 12: Toward Trans-Sensitive and Vegan-Intersectional Feminisms (Interview)
Chapter 13: The Future is Queer and Vegan! (Interview)
