KAY PEGGS Principal Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her current published work centres on animals in society. She has previously published on women and ageing, gender and health, and couple relationships. She is co-author with Richard Lampard of Identity and Repartnering after Separation which was published by Palgrave in 2007.

• Series Editors' Foreword Sociology and Animals- Beginnings Animals and Biology as Destiny Animals, Social Inequalities andOppression Animals,Crime andAbuse Town and Country: Animals, Space and Place Consumption of the Animal Animals, Leisure and Culture Animal Experiments and Animal Rights Conclusion: Sociology for Other Animals References Index