Thinking animals: why animal studies now?

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"Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals, she charts the presumed lines of difference between human beings and other species and the personal, ethical, and political implications of those boundaries.

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Full title :Thinking animals : why animal studies now? / Kari Weil.

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Publication Date:©2012.

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Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xxiv, 190 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780231148085, 0231148089, 9780231148092, 0231148097, 9780231519847, 0231519842
oclc:ocn748577963
LC Classification:B105.A55
Dewey Decimal:113/.8

Part I. Why animal studies now? 1. A report on the animal turn ; 2. Seeing animals -- Part II. Pet tales. 3. Is a pet an animal? Domestication and animal agency ; 4. Gendered subjects/abject objects : man(n)'s best friend ; 5. Dog love/w(o)olf love -- Part III. Grieving animals. 6. A proper death ; 7. Thinking and unthinking animal death : Temple Grandin and J.M. Coetzee -- Part IV. Ethical bêtises. 8. Animal liberation or shameless freedom -- "And Toto too" : animal studies, posthumanism, and Oz.

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42.66 ethology Animals (Philosophy) Animals in literature Animaux (Philosophie) Animaux dans la littérature Mens-dier-relatie Nature -- Animal Rights SCIENCE -- Cosmology