Killing animals
By: the Animal Studies Group.
Contributors: Animal Studies Group.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780252030505; 9780252072901
Subjects: Animal welfare; Hunting; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses; Human-animal relationships
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Wild killing : contesting the animal in hunting / Garry Marvin; title: What is doing the killing? : animal attacks, man-eaters, and shifting boundaries and flows of human-non-human relations / Chris Wilbert; title: Pangs watched in perpetuity : Sir Edwin Landseer's pictures of dying deer, and the ethos of Victorian sportsmanship / Diana Donald; title: "You kill things to look at them" : animal death in contemporary art / Steve Baker; title: Two ethics : killing animals in the past and the present / Erica Fudge; title: Conflicts around slaughter in modernity / Jonathan Burt; title: BSE, hysteria, and the representation of animal death : Deborah Levy's diary of a steak / Robert McKay; title: Killing animals in animal shelters / Clare Palmer; title: Conclusion: A conversation.