Species Matters - Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory

Informationen zum Autor Marianne DeKoven is professor of English at Rutgers University and a recipient of both Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships. Her books include Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern! which won the Perkins Award from the Society of Narrative Literature; Rich and Strange: Gender! History! Modernism; and A Different Language: Gertrude Stein's Experimental Writing. She is also the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Stein's Three Lives. Michael Lundblad is assistant professor of English and director of animality studies at Colorado State University. His research focuses on twentieth-century American literature and culture! cultural studies! ecocriticism! and animal and animality studies. His work has appeared in American Literature! PMLA! American Quarterly! and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Klappentext Questioning distinctions between 'the human' and 'the animal'! these renowned intellectuals explore whether advocacy for animals should be linked to advocacy for various human groups. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Animality and Advocacy! by Michael Lundblad and Marianne DeKoven1. Species Matters! Humane Advocacy: In the Promising Grip of Earthly Oxymorons! by Donna Haraway2. Humane Advocacy and the Humanities: The Very Idea! by Cary Wolfe3. Consequences of Humanism! or! Advocating What?! by Paola Cavalieri4. Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality! Savagery! Blackness! by Michael Lundblad5. What Came Before The Sexual Politics of Meat: The Activist Roots of a Critical Theory! by Carol J. Adams6. Compassion: Human and Animal! by Martha Nussbaum7. Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness! by Frans de WaalAddendum to Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness (2010)! by Frans de Waal8. Avoid Being Abstract When Making Policies on the Welfare of Animals! by Temple GrandinContributorsIndex ...

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• Authors: M DeKoven, Marianne DeKoven, Marianne (EDT)/ Lundblad Dekoven, Marianne Lundblad Dekoven
• Assisted by: Marianne DeKoven (Editor), Michael Lundblad (Editor), Lundblad Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2012
• EAN: 9780231152839
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15283-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Columbia University Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, NATURE / Animals / General, NATURE / Animal Rights, ART / Popular Culture, Earth Sciences, art; animal rights; nature