Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory

Edited by Marianne DeKoven and Michael Lundblad

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December, 2011
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Acknowledgments

Introduction. Animality and Advocacy, by Michael Lundblad and Marianne DeKoven

1. Species Matters, Humane Advocacy: In the Promising Grip of Earthly Oxymorons, by Donna Haraway

2. Humane Advocacy and the Humanities: The Very Idea, by Cary Wolfe

3. Consequences of Humanism, or, Advocating What?, by Paola Cavalieri

4. Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness, by Michael Lundblad

5. What Came Before The Sexual Politics of Meat: The Activist Roots of a Critical Theory, by Carol J. Adams

6. Compassion: Human and Animal, by Martha Nussbaum

7. Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness, by Frans de Waal

Addendum to Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness (2010), by Frans de Waal

8. Avoid Being Abstract When Making Policies on the Welfare of Animals, by Temple Grandin

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

• Animal Studies

About the Author

Marianne DeKoven is professor of English at Rutgers University and a recipient of both Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships. Her books include Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern, which won the Perkins Award from the Society of Narrative Literature; Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism; and A Different Language: Gertrude Stein’s Experimental Writing. She is also the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Stein’s Three Lives.

Michael Lundblad is assistant professor of English and director of animality studies at Colorado State University. His research focuses on twentieth-century American literature and culture, cultural studies, ecocriticism, and animal and animality studies. His work has appeared in American Literature, PMLA, American Quarterly, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

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