Feminist Animal and Multispecies Studies: Critical Perspectives on Food and Eating

Kadri Aavik (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. She works in gender studies, critical animal studies and vegan studies—and their intersections. Her current research focuses on vegan men and masculinities.Kuura Irni (Ph.D.) works as University Lecturer in Gender Studies at University of Helsinki. They have published among others, in Signs, EJWS, NORA, Body and Society, and Humanimalia. Their interests include queer, trans, and decolonial feminisms, and critical multispecies studies.Milla-Maria Joki (MA) is a Doctoral Researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She studies at the Doctoral Programme in Gender, Culture, and Society (UH).

• Editors’ AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Critical Feminist Animal and Multispecies StudiesKuura Irni, Kadri Aavik and Milla-Maria JokiPART 1: Geographies, Boundaries and Relationality1 Naive Boars and Dummy Sows: Porcine Sex and the Politics of PurityMarianna Szczygielska and Agata Kowalewska2 Eating with a Cow: Feminist Multispecies Ethnography in the Kitchens of the Black Sea High Pastures of TurkeyEzgi BurganPART 2: Negotiating Dependency and Care3 Care in a Time of Anthropogenic Problems: Experiences from Sanctuary-Making in Rural DenmarkMarie Leth-Espensen4 Negotiating Disability in Celebrity Cat Lil BUB’s Eating VideosMilla-Maria JokiPART 3: Revisioning the Potential of Education5 Pedagogy of the Consumed: an Integral Feminist Lens on Veganism in Higher EducationAlka Arora6 Human Children, Nonhuman Animals, and a Plant-Based Vegan FutureManeesha DeckhaPART 4: Trans-Formations in Ecofeminist Theory7 Revisiting Ecofeminist Genealogies: towards Intersectional and Trans-inclusive EcofeminismKuura Irni8 Ecofeminist Critique of the Milk Industry: from Mammal Mothers to Biocapitalist BovinesSanna KarhuPART 5: Veganism and Possibilities for Resistance9 Men’s Veganism: a Pathway towards More Egalitarian Masculinities?Kadri Aavik10 Staying with the Trouble in Cat Advocacy: Donna Haraway, Vegan Politics, and the Case of Cat FoodKuura Irni11 Fractured Locus: Resistances in the Global South and a Decolonial Ecofeminist Anti-Speciesist PraxisDaniela Rosendo, Fabio A. G. Oliveira and Tânia A. KuhnenPART 6: Intersectional Animal Activisms12 Toward Trans-Sensitive and Vegan-Intersectional FeminismsAn Interview with Panda Eriksson13 The Future is Queer and Vegan!An Interview with Özge ÖzgünerIndex