Social Creatures: A Human and Animal Studies Reader
Editor, Clif Flynn

Social Creatures: An Introduction, Clifton P. Flynn

Part I: An Emerging Field

• Introduction to Human—Animal Studies, Kenneth J. Shapiro
• The Zoological Connection: Animal-related Human Behavior, Clifton Bryant
• The Animal Question in Anthropology, Barbara Noske

• Understanding Dogs through Kinesthetic Empathy, Social Construction, and History, Kenneth J. Shapiro
• Future Directions in Human—Animal Bond Research, Alan M. Beck and Aaron H. Katcher
• Understanding Dogs: Caretakers' Attributions of Mindedness in Canine—Human Relationships, Clinton R. Sanders

• Speciesism, Anthropocentrism, and Non-Western Cultures, Barbara Noske
• The Anthropology of Conscience, Michael Tobias
• The Emergence of Modern Pet-keeping, Harriet Ritvo

• Animal Rights as Religious Vision, Andrew Linzey
• The Power of Play, Leslie Irvine
• There's Not Enough Room to Swing a Dead Cat and There's No Use Flogging a Dead Horse, Tracey Smith-Harris

• Gender, Sex-role Orientation and Attitudes toward Animals, Harold Herzog, Nancy S. Betchart, and Robert B. Pittman
• Childhood Pet Keeping and Humane Attitudes in Young Adulthood, Elizabeth S. Paul and James A. Serpell
• Animal Rights and Human Social Issues, David Nibert

• Children Who Are Cruel to Animals: A Review of Research and Implications for Developmental Psychology, Frank R. Ascione
• Childhood Cruelty to Animals and Subsequent Violence against Humans, Linda. Merz-Perez, Kathleen M. Heide, and Ira J. Silverman
• Women's Best Friend: Pet Abuse and the Role of Companion Animals in the Lives of Battered Women, Clifton P. Flynn
• Hoarding of Animals: An Under-recognized Public Health Problem in a Difficult-to-study Population, Gary J. Patronek

• An Historical Understanding, Marjorie Spiegel
• The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams
• Humans and Other Animals: Sociology's Moral and Intellectual Challenge, David Nibert

• The Health Benefits of Human—Animal Interactions, Andrew N. Rowan and Alan M. Beck
• Personality Characteristics of Dog and Cat Persons, Rose M. Perrine and Hannah L. Osbourne
• Human Grief Resulting from the Death of a Pet, Gerald H. Gosse and Michael J. Barnes
• Loving Them to Death: Blame-displacing Strategies of Animal Shelter Workers and Surrenderers, Stephen Frommer and Arnold Arluke
• Savages, Drunks, and Lab Animals: The Researcher's Perception of Pain, Mary T. Phillips

• All Animals are Equal, Peter Singer
• The Case for Animal Rights, Tom Regan
• Animal Rights and Feminist Theory, Josephine Donovan
• Caring about Blood, Flesh, and Pain: Women's Standing in the Animal Protection Movement, Lyle Munro

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