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1 - Contents
Humans, Animals, and Society: An Introduction to Human–Animal Studies
Nik Taylor
Introduction
Acknlowledgments
Introduction
- Why Animals?
- Animals—A Natural Category?
- Anthropocentrism
- Ecocentrism
- The Invisibility of Animals in Social Thought
- Overview
- Further Reading
Chapter 1: The Human–Animal Bond
- Animals as Family
- Animals and Human Health
- Companion Animals and Social Interaction
- Animal-Assisted Therapy and Animal-Assisted Intervention
- Animals in Prisons
- Humane Education
- Further Reading
Chapter 2: Social Institutions and Animals
- Keeping Animals: Domestication
- Early Domestication
- A Short History of the Domestic Dog
- Bestiality, Heresy, and the Control of Nature
- The Institutionalization of Pet Keeping
- Pet Keeping and Social Status
- Eating Animals
- Meat Eating and Climate Change
- Further Reading
Chapter 3: Representing Animals
- The Making of Meaning
- Looking at Animals
- Animals in Film
- Watching Nature: "Wild" Animal Images
- From Image to Reality: Dangerous Animals, Moral Panics, and Stigma
- Further Reading
Chapter 4: Working with/for Animals
- Animals and Ethnography
- Animals and Human Identity
- Human–Animal Interaction in the Laboratory
- Slaughtering Animals
- Distancing Through Production
- Veterinarians
- Animal Shelters
- Further Reading
Chapter 5: Human—and Animal—Directed Violence
- The Human–Animal Abuse "Link"
- Human–Animal Abuse Connections
- Graduation Versus Desensitization Theses
- Broader Animal Abuse Perspectives
- Criminology and Broader Human–Animal Abuse Perspectives
- Animals, Abuse, and Power
- Further Reading
Chapter 6: Protecting Animals
- What Is Animal Protection?
- How Do We Assess Animal Welfare?
- A New Social Ethic for Animals
- Attitudes Toward Animals
- Animal Rights
- The Birth of an Animal Rights Movement
- The Philosophy of Animal Rights
- The Influence of Darwinism
- The Modern Debate
- Christian Thought
- The Renaissance and Legacy of Descartes
- The Enlightenment and Beyond
- Ecofeminism and an Ethic of Care for Animals
- Further Reading
Conclusion: Critical Animal Studies and the Future of Human–Animal Studies
- Posthumanism and Intersectionality
- Critical Animal Studies and Capitalism
- Moving Forward: An Animal Standpoint and Intersectionality?
- Critical Animal Studies and the Academy
- Further Reading
References
Index of Terms
Author Index
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