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.

Welfare rights movement.

Social advocacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The New Press, 2016.

Summary:

"2018 American Book Award WinnerA beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation—and the debut of an important new social criticHow 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."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue: Chicken Truck

Part One: Epiphanies

1: Strange but True

2: What Is Disability?

3: Animal Crips

Part Two: Cripping Animal Ethics

4: The Chimp Who Spoke

5: Ableism and Animals

6: What Is an Animal?

7: The Chimp Who Remembered

Part Three: I Am an Animal

8: Walking Like a Monkey

9: Animal Insults

10: Claiming Animal

Part Four: All Natural

11: Freak of Nature

12: All Animals Are Equal (But Some Are More Equal Than Others)

13: Toward a New Table Fellowship

14: Romancing the Meat

15: Meat: A Natural Disaster

Part Five: Interdependence

16: A Conflict of Needs

17: Caring Across Species and Ability

18: The Service Dog

Acknowledgments

Notes

About the Author

Celebrating 25 Years of Independent Publishing

Other Titles of Interest from The New Press

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource (viewed 14 Nov 2023), publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC:

959610973