Queer Entanglements - Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Animal Companionship

This book explores LGBQTNB people's relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

List of contents

1. Menageries, Enmeshment, and Irreducibility; 2. Love, Loss, and Grief; 3. Violence, Cruelty, and Rescue; 4. Sameness, Difference, and Intercorporeality; 5. Rainbows, Flags, and Bridges; 6. Consumption, Consumerism, and Kink; 7. Voice, Responsibility, and Liberation; References; Index.

About the author

Damien W. Riggs is Professor of Psychology in the College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work at Flinders University, Australia.Shoshana Rosenberg is an independent researcher currently based in Naarm, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Heather Fraser is Associate Professor of Social Work in the School of Public Health and Social Work at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.Nik Taylor is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Human Services at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Summary

This book explores lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, and non-binary people's relationships with animal companions. Drawing on the authors' research across psychology, media, gender studies, and sociology, the book combines theory and evidence to frame the queer entanglements of human and animal lives as a menagerie of interweaving experiences.

Foreword

This book explores LGBQTNB people's relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

Product details

• Authors: Heather Fraser, Fraser Heather, Damien W. Riggs, Damien W. (Flinders University of South Aus Riggs, Riggs Damien W., Shoshana Rosenberg, Nik Taylor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781108738941
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73894-1
• No. of pages: 237
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, MEDICAL / Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PETS / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Sociology: family & relationships, Health psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Domestic animals & pets, Domestic animals and pets, Sociology: family and relationships, Psychology of gender