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| Author / Creator: | Fudge, Erica. |
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| Imprint: | London : Reaktion, 2002. |
| Description: | 182 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | FOCI Focus on contemporary issues. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4759408 |
| Summary: | From the pet that we live with and care for, to news items such as animal cloning, and the use of various creatures in film, television and advertising, animals are a constant presence in our lives.<br> <br> Animal is a timely overview of the many ways in which we live with animals, and assesses many of the paradoxes of our relationships with them: for example, why is the pet that sits by the dinner table never for eating? Examining novels such as Charlotte's Web , films such as Old Yeller and Babe , science and advertising, fashion and philosophy, Animal also evaluates the ways in which we think about animals and challenges a number of the assumptions we hold. Why is it, for example, that animals are such a constant presence in children's literature? And what does it mean to wear fake fur? Is fake fur an ethical avoidance of animal suffering, or merely a sanitized version of the unacceptable use of animals as clothing?<br> <br> Neither evangelical nor proselytizing, Animal invites the reader to think beyond the boundaries of a subject that has a direct effect on our day-to-day lives. |
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| Physical Description: | 182 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1861891342 |
