Thinking Animals - Why Animal Studies Now?

Informationen zum Autor Kari Weil teaches in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University. She has published widely on feminist theory; literary representations of gender (especially in France); the riding! breeding! and eating of horses in nineteenth-century France; and! more recently! on theories and representations of animal otherness and human-animal relations. Her course! "Animal Subjects!" which she first taught at the California College of the Arts! won "Best Course Award" from the United States Humane Society. Klappentext Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Thinking AnimalsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Why Animal Studies Now?1. A Report on the Animal Turn2. Seeing AnimalsPart II: Pet Tales3. Is a Pet an Animal? Domestication and Animal Agency4. Gendered Subjects/Abject Objects: Man(n)'s Best Friend 5. Dog Love/W(o)olf LovePart III: Grieving Animals6. A Proper Death7. Thinking and Unthinking Animal Death: Temple Grandin and J. M. CoetzeePart IV: Ethical Betises8. Animal Liberation or Shameless Freedom"And Toto Too": Animal Studies! Posthumanism! and OzNotesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Weil, Kari Weil, Weil Kari
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9780231148085
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14808-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Animals & society, Animals and society