Thinking animals : why animal studies now? /
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| Author / Creator: | Weil, Kari. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, c2012. |
| Description: | xxiv, 190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8776344 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Thinking Animals
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Why Animal Studies Now?
- 1. A Report on the Animal Turn
- 2. Seeing Animals
- Part II. Pet Tales
- 3. Is a Pet an Animal? Domestication and Animal Agency
- 4. Gendered Subjects/Abject Objects: Man(n)'s Best Friend
- 5. Dog Love/W(o)olf Love
- Part III. Grieving Animals
- 6. A Proper Death
- 7. Thinking and Unthinking Animal Death: Temple Grandin and J. M. Coetzee
- Part IV. Ethical Bêtises
- 8. Animal Liberation or Shameless Freedom "And Toto Too": Animal Studies, Posthumanism, and Oz
- Notes
- Index
