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"This is an outstanding collection. The authors write expertly on the surprisingly intimate relation between attitudes toward animals and women in our culture. From reading their work on pornography, the treatment of 'laboratory' animals, hunting, wife-beating, and factory farming I have learned a tremendous amount. This superbly edited volume makes an important contribution to the cause of animal and human liberation."--Jane Tompkins, Duke University
List of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I: Sexism/Speciesism: Interlocking Oppressions 9
1. Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots / Joan Dunayer 11
2. Exploring the Boundaries: Feminism, Animals, and Science / Lynda Birke 32
3. Women Battering and Harm to Animals / Carol J. Adams 55
4. License to Kill: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunters' Discourse / Marti Kheel 85
5. Speech, Pornography, and Hunting / Maria Comninou 126
6. Abortion and Animal Rights: Are They Compatible Issues? / Gary L. Francione 149
Part II: Alternative Stories 161
7. Beyond Just-So Stories: Narrative, Animals, and Ethics / Linda Vance 163
8. Thinking Like a Chicken: Farm Animals and the Feminine Connection / Karen Davis 192
9. Of Wolves and Women / Diane Antonio 213
10. The Power of Otherness: Animals in Women's Fiction / Marian Scholtmeijer 231
11. Birds Don't Sing in Greek: Virginia Woolf and "The Plumage Bill" / Reginald Abbott 263
12. Taming Ourselves or Going Feral? Toward a Nonpatriarchal Metaethic of Animal Liberation / Brian Luke 290
13. Speciesism, Racism, Nationalism...or the Power of Scientific Subjectivity / Susanne Kappeler 320
Bibliography of Feminist Approaches to Animal Issues 353
Notes on Contributors 363
Index 367
About the author
Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan, eds.
