Feminism, animals and science : the naming of the shrew
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Feminism, animals and science : the naming of the shrew
Open University Press, 1994
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-162) and indexex
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780335191970
Description
Beginning with some ways in which "animals" are defined by science, and with feminist concerns about non-humans as fellow sufferers, this text examines how ideas about animals are constructed in different areas of biological science and how these intersect with feminist critiques of modern science. The book then addresses the human/animal opposition implicit in much feminist theorizing, arguing that the opposition helps to maintain the essentialism that feminists have so often criticized. The final chapter brings us back from ideas of what "the animal" is to ask how these questions might relate to environmental politics, including ecofeminism and animal rights.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Animal meanings: the meanings of animals
- changing meanings. Part 2 Animals in science: into the laboratory
- writing the animal. Part 3 Defining animals: winners in life's race?
- animal abilities. Part 4 Embodied beings: animals and biological determination
- denying the (animal) body
- the renaming of the shrew.
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780335191987
Description
Beginning with some ways in which "animals" are defined by science, and with feminist concerns about non-humans as fellow sufferers, this text examines how ideas about animals are constructed in different areas of biological science and how these intersect with feminist critiques of modern science.;The book then addresses the human/animal opposition implicit in much feminist theorizing, arguing that the opposition helps to maintain the essentialism that feminists have so often criticized. The final chapter brings us back from ideas of what "the animal" is to ask how these questions might relate to environmental politics, including ecofeminism and animal rights.
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