Social Lives with Other Animals [electronic resource] : Tales of Sex, Death and Love /
Cudworth, E.author.
A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways Other animals are constitutive of human social lives at the dinner table, as livestock and as companions in our homes.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Of Humans and Other Animals; 2 Relations, Power and the Limits of 'Speciesism'; 3 Beyond Speciesism: Theorizing Difference and Domination; 4 Sex: Carnal Desire and the Eating of Animals; 5 Death: 'Growing' and Killing Animals; 6 Love: Stories from the Lives of Companion Species; 7 Difference and Domination Revisited; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways Other animals are constitutive of human social lives at the dinner table, as livestock and as companions in our homes.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Sociology.
Environmental sociology.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Sociology, general.
Environmental Sociology.
Social Theory.