Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals

Chloë Taylor is a feminist philosopher, critical animal studies scholar, and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of three monographs, co-editor of five previous books, and founder of the North American Association for Critical Animal Studies.

"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is an immense achievement. Taylor has done a superb job of acquiring, editing, proofing, and introducing the 50 original chapters in this weighty collection. Representing almost every corner of the Anglophone world, the 49 contributors offer cutting-edge, intersectional thinking on human and more-than-human animal relationships through a variety of critical perspectives, representing, for example, (eco)feminist, critical race, anti-colonial, critical disability, queer, and masculinity studies. In her lengthy introduction, Taylor itemizes several key reasons why it is important to think about issues of gender and animals together, skillfully showing how and why, given the current era of climate catastrophe, we must find paths toward multispecies justice. The collection has nine parts covering theoretical foundations, intersectional veganisms, feminist care ethics, feminist multispecies methods, transfeminisms, masculinities, gender and animals in folklore and fiction, activism and advocacy, multispecies justice, and multispecies futures. This particular Routledge Companion is crucial reading for all scholars and students working in the multidisciplinary field of critical animal studies."- Piers Beirne, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies at University of Southern Maine, USA

• Introduction: Why Gender and Animals? Part I: Theoretical Foundations 1. Ecofeminism; 2. Feminized Protein; 3. Animals, Feminist Care Theory, and Critical Standpoint Theory: An Interview with Josephine Donovan; 4. Queering Animal Liberation: 20 Thoughts Toward Interspecies Solidarity; 5. Analogy and Alterity; Part II: Intersectional Veganisms; 6. Feminist Veganism; 7. Black Veganism(s): A Personally Guided Exploration; 8. The Skins I’m In; 9. Vegan Camp: An Interview with Emelia Quinn; 10. Veganism and Disability in Catastrophic Times; Part III: Feminist Ethics and Care; 11. Animal Sanctuaries as Feminist Care Activism; 12. Feminist Legal Systems that Benefit Animals: Placing Parameters Around Care and Relationality; 13. Entangled Subjectivity: On Care Ethics and Service Dogs; 14. Shelters; 15. Wild Animal Ethics: A Gender-Sensitive Perspective; Part IV: Feminist Multispecies Methods;16. Care as Method for Multispecies Ethnographies; 17. Feminist Methodology and Multispecies Ethnography; 18. Feminism and Multispecies Methods: An Interview with Kathryn Gillespie; 19. Possibilities and Productive Failures: Feminist Methodologies and Animal Subjects; 20. Unruly Faces in Suburban Places: A Practice in Multispecies Autoethnography; Part V: Transfeminisms, Women, and Animals;21. Antispeciesist Transfeminisms in Latin America; 22. Furious and Ferocious Forms: A Cartography of Antispeciesist and Posthumanist Transfeminisms from the Global South; 23. Re-Aestheticizing the Mind: Art, Feminisms, and Animals in Los Angeles (1970s-1980s); 24. Requiem for Tia Maria; 25. Crazy Cat Lady; Part VI: Masculinities and Animals; 26. The Homoxenoerotics of Elephant Crime and Captivity in India; 27. The Homoerotics of Trophy Hunting; 28. A Feminist Rubik’s Cube: Slaughterhouse Labour, Violence, and Multispecies Trauma; 29. Ecomasculinities, Boyhoods and Critical Animal Pedagogy; 30. Gender and Animals Under Brahminical Patriarchy; Part VII: Gender and Animals in Folklore and Fiction; 31. From Folklore to Factory Farms: Gender, Sex and Chickenkind; 32. Gothic Snakes: Snake Handling, Snake Women and a Post-Secular Serpentine Practice; 33. Masculinity and Multispecies Labour: A Feminist Animal Studies Reading of In the Skin of the Lion; 34. Margaret Atwood’s Dairyscape; 35. A Hut of Her Own; Part VIII: Activism and Advocacy; 36. Animal Resistance; 37. Women’s Contributions to the Movements for Animal Protection and Rights; 38. The Repression of Animal Activism: An Interview with Tayler Zavitz; 39. Sexism in Animal Activism: the Foie Gras Campaigns; 40. Racism and Anti-Racism in Animal Advocacy; Part IX: Multispecies Justice; 41. A Grateful Acknowledgement: Gender Theory and Multispecies Justice; 42. Two-Spirit Feminism and Indigenous Ecological Governance; 43. Pronouns in More-Than-Human Worlds and Indigenous and Colonial Law; 44. Racial Justice, Animal Justice: An Interview with Claire Jean Kim; 45. Transformative Justice for Animals: Lessons from Anti-Carceral Feminism; Part X: Multispecies Futures;46. Queer Futures and Mutual Aid; 47. Zoonosis; 48. Elachistocene vs. Anthropo-Scenes: Inheriting an Epoch Defined by Mass Extinction; 49. De-Extinction; 50. Composting Life-Death Time