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Beasts of burden : animal and disability liberation / Sunaura Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Sunaura, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal rights.
- Animal welfare.
- People with disabilities--Civil rights.
- People with disabilities.
- Social advocacy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The New Press, 2016.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation--and the debut of an important new social critic How much of what we understand of ourselves as "human" depends on our physical and mental abilities--how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much of our definition of "human" depends on its difference from "animal"? Drawing on her own experiences as a disabled person, a disability activist, and an animal advocate, author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply, and sometimes uncomfortably, about what divides the human from the animal, the disabled from the nondisabled--and what it might mean to break down those divisions, to claim the animal and the vulnerable in ourselves, in a process she calls "cripping animal ethics." Beasts of Burden suggests that issues of disability and animal justice--which have heretofore primarily been presented in opposition--are in fact deeply entangled. Fusing philosophy, memoir, science, and the radical truths these disciplines can bring--whether about factory farming, disability oppression, or our assumptions of human superiority over animals--Taylor draws attention to new worlds of experience and empathy that can open up important avenues of solidarity across species and ability. Beasts of Burden is a wonderfully engaging and elegantly written work, both philosophical and personal, by a brilliant new voice.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Epiphanies
- 1 Strange but True 3
- 2 What Is Disability? 7
- 3 Animal Grips 23
- Part 2 Clipping Animal Ethics
- 4 The Chimp Who Spoke 47
- 5 Ableism and Animals 57
- 6 What Is an Animal? 83
- 7 The Chimp Who Remembered 95
- Part 3 I Am an Animal
- 8 Walking Like a Monkey 101
- 9 Animal Insults 103
- 10 Claiming Animal 111
- Part 4 All Natural
- 11 Freak of Nature 119
- 12 All Animals Are Equal (But Some Are More Equal Than Others) 123
- 13 Toward a New Table Fellowship 149
- 14 Romancing the Meat 157
- 15 Meat: A Natural Disaster 179
- Part 5 Interdependence
- 16 A Conflict of Needs 193
- 17 Caring Across Species and Ability 205
- 18 The Service Dog 219.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 26, 2018).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Taylor, Sunaura. Beasts of burden.
- ISBN:
- 9781620971291
- 1620971291
- Publisher Number:
- 99984949231
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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