Animaladies : gender, animals and madness / edited by Lori Gruen and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona, editor.

Gruen, Lori, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Women and animals.

Animals--Social aspects.

Animals.

Zoophilia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2019.

Summary:

Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights activists, this book examines how the "madness" of our relationships with animals intersects with the "madness" of taking animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that "animaladies" are expressive of political and psychological discontent, and the characterization of animal advocacy as mad or "crazy" distracts attention from broader social unease regarding human exploitation of animal life. While allusions to madness are both subtle and overt, they are also very often gendered, thought to be overly sentimental with an added sense that emotions are being directed at the wrong species. Animaladies are obstacles for the political uptake of interest in animal issues-as the intersections between this volume and established feminist scholarship show, the fear of being labeled unreasonable or mad still has political currency.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Distillations

Part I: Dismember

Chapter 1: Just Say no to Lobotomy

Chapter 2: Making and Unmaking Mammalian Bodies: Sculptural Practice as Traumatic Testimony

Chapter 3: There's Something about the Blood ... : Tactics of Evasion Within Narratives of Violence

Chapter 4: Erupt the Silence

Chapter 5: The Loneliness and Madness of Witnessing: Reflections From a Vegan Feminist Killjoy

Part II: Disability

Chapter 6: Ableism, Speciesism, Animals, and Autism: The Devaluation of Interspecies Friendships

Chapter 7: Metaphors and Maladies: Against Psychologizing Speciesism

Chapter 8: The Horrific History of Comparisons Between Cognitive Disability and Animality(And How to Move Past it)

Chapter 9: The Personal is Political: Orthorexia Nervosa, the Pathogenization of Veganism, and Grief as a Political Act

Chapter 10: Women, Anxiety, and Companion Animals: Toward a Feminist Animal Studies of Interspecies Care and Solidarity

Part III: Dysfunction

Chapter 11: The "Crazy Cat Lady"

Chapter 12: The Role of Damned and Dammed Desire in Animal Exploitation and Liberation

Chapter 13: Duck Lake Project: Art Meets Activism in an Anti-Hide, Anti-Bloke, Antidote to Duck Shooting

Chapter 14: On Outcast Women, Dog Love, and Abjection Between Species

Discussion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501342172

1501342177

9781501342165

1501342169

OCLC:

1042082324