Kissing Cousins: A New Kinship Bestiary

Frances Bartkowski

September, 2008
Cloth, 224 pages, 5 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14452-0
$27.50 / £19.00

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Remember the 2000-Year-Old Man?

Part I

1. Kissing Cousins

2. Forget the Alamo . . .

3. The Newly Born Century

4. Sisters of the Bone

Part II

5. Apes 'r Us

6. When Apes Rule

7. Again, by a Declaration of Rights

8. From Cage to Caves

9. Trees of Origin

10. Bonobos in Our Midst

Part III

11. Kintimacy: Blood Brothers

12. Of Pigs and Men

13. Mendel's Nephew

14. Of Love and Law

Epilogue: Here Come the Cavemen

Works Cited

Works Consulted

Index

Related Subjects

• Animal Studies
• Continental/Feminist Philosophy

About the Author

Frances Bartkowski is associate professor of English and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Feminist Utopias and Travelers and Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement, and the coeditor of Feminist Theory: A Reader.

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