Social lives with other animals
Subtitle: tales of sex, death and love
By: Erika Cudworth
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780230241510
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Animals; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography; Social aspects; Human-animal relationships; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Of Humans and Other Animals; title: Relations, Power and the Limitations of 'Speciesism'; title: Beyond Speciesism : Theorizing Difference and Dominion; title: Sex : Carnal Desire and the Eating of Animals; title: Death : Killing Animals and Making Meat; title: Love : Stories from the Lives of Companion Species; title: Difference and Domination Revisited.