Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies

Amber E. George is assistant professor at Galen College.

Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies is a timely and extremely needed collection that interrogates the interconnections between systems of oppression, like speciesism, sexism, racism, and ableism. At a time where scholars, activists, and nonprofit leaders are reevaluating the depths of structural sexism, racism, and cisheteropatriarchy within their institutions, this book illustrates the need for liberation struggles to challenge all abuse in non/human communities in order dismantle hierarchical ideologies.

• Introduction: The Entanglements of Sexuality, Gender, and Species in Critical Animal StudiesAmber E. GeorgePart I: Challenging Speciesism, Patriarchy, and Heterosexism in Literature Chapter 1: Animals and the Absent Referent in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s TaleKelly SvobodaChapter 2: “the animals and birds were left in peace”: Katharine Burdekin’s Queer Utopian EcologySarah D’StairPart II: Liberating Nonhumans in the Classroom and LaboratoryChapter 3: Queering Our Relations with Nonhuman Animals: Multispecies Sexuality Beyond the LaboratoryMitch GoldsmithChapter 4: Teaching to Become Intersectional Allies: Engaged Activism, Ecofeminism, Anarchism, and Building Resistance in the ClassroomDamla IsikPart III: Disrupting the Gendered and Sexual Violence Against Nonhuman AnimalsChapter 5: The “Unnatural,” “Immoral” Hyena and the Implications for Conservation StrategyAnnika HugossonChapter 6: Humanity and Honeybees: The Inhumane Treatment of Honey Bees and Where