About the Book
This new edition of Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth begins with an historical, grounding overview that situates ecofeminist theory and activism within the larger field of ecocriticism and provides a timeline for important publications and events. Throughout the book, authors engage with intersections of gender, sexuality, gender expression, race, disability, and species to address the various ways that sexism, heteronormativity, racism, colonialism, and ableism are informed by and support animal oppression.
This collection is broken down into three separate sections:
—Affect includes contributions from leading theorists and activists on how our emotions and embodiment can and must inform our relationships with the more-than-human world
—Context explores the complexities of appreciating difference and the possibilities of living less violently
—Climate, new to the second edition, provides an overview of our climate crisis as well as the climate for critical discussion and debate about ecofeminist ideas and actions
Drawing on animal studies, environmental studies, feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics, the ecofeminist contributors to this volume stress the need to move beyond binaries and attend to context over universal judgments; spotlight the importance of care as well as justice, emotion as well as reason; and work to undo the logic of domination and its material implications.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Carol J. Adams (Independent Scholar, USA) and Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA)
1. Ecofeminist Footings
Carol J. Adams (Independent Scholar, USA) and Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA)
Part 1 Affect
Introduction to Affect
2. Caring to Dialogue: Feminism and the Treatment of Animals
Josephine Donovan (University of Maine, USA)
3. Compassion and Being Human
Deane Curtin (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA)
4. Ecology is a Sistah's Issue Too
Shamara Shantu Riley (Independent Scholar)
5. Joy
Deborah Slicer (University of Montana, USA)
6. Eros and the Mechanisms of Eco-Defense
pattrice jones (Independent Scholar and Co-founder of Vine Sanctuary, USA)
7. Interdependent Animals: A Feminist Disability Ethics of Care
Sunaura Taylor (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
8. Facing Death and Practicing Grief
Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA)
Part 2 Context
Introduction to Context
9. Inter-Animal Moral Conflicts and Moral Repair: A Contextualized Ecofeminism Approach in Action
Karen S. Emmerman (University of Washington, USA)
10. Michael Vick, Race, and Animality
Claire Kim (University of California at Irvine, USA)
11. Caring Cannibals: Testing Contextual Edibility for Speciesism
Ralph Acampora (Hofstra University, USA)
12. Ecofeminism and Veganism: Revisiting the Question of Universalism
Richard Twine (Edge Hill University, UK)
13. Why a Pig? A Reclining Nude Reveals the Intersections of Race, Sex, Slavery, and Species
Carol J. Adams (Independent Scholar, USA)
14. Toward New EcoMasculinities, EcoGenders, and EcoSexualities
Greta Gaard (University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA)
Part 3 Climate
Introduction to Climate
15. Pussy Panic versus Liking Animals: Tracking Gender in Animal Studies
Susan Fraiman (University of Virginia, USA)
16. Black Feminist Ecological Thought: A Manifesto
Chelsea Mikael Frazier (Cornell University, USA)
17. The Animals Call It: Climate Crisis, Gender Crisis, and Ecofeminist Listening
Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (University of Wollongong, Australia)
18. Global Atmospheres of Exploitation: Shifting Terrains of Othering in Ecofeminist
Kathryn Gillespie (University of Kentucky, USA) and Yamini Narayanan (Deakin University, Australia)
19. Maximum Plunder: The Global Context and Multiple Threats of Animal Agriculture
Mia MacDonald (Policy Analyst, Executive Director and Founder of Brighter Green, USA)
20. Upsetting Boundaries: Trans Queer Interspecies Ecofeminisms
Leah Kirts (Freelance Writer and Activist, USA)
References
Index
About the Author :
Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat, Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals, and The Pornography of Meat. Her work is the subject of two recent anthologies, Defiant Daughters: 21 Women of Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore The Sexual Politics of Meat, in which a new generation of feminists, artists, and activists respond to Adams' groundbreaking work.
Lori Gruen is William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, USA, where she is also a professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies. Her work lies at the intersection of ethical theory and ethical practice, with a particular focus on ethical issues that impact those often overlooked in traditional ethical investigations, e.g. women, people of color, non-human animals. She is the author or editor of 10 books, including Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (2011) and Animaladies: Gender, Animals, and Madness (with Fiona Probyn-Rapsey; Bloomsbury, 2018).
Review :
Carol J. Adams and Lori Gruen are two of the leading scholars in the field of animal studies. This is a pathbreaking book with current, relevant, and important insights for the entire field. It should be required reading for anyone concerned with animals, feminism, or the environment – which is to say, everyone.
This is a breakthrough collection of updated influential essays in the field and fresh and diverse animal-centered analyses addressing urgent questions of climate, care, and affect. Adams and Gruen have curated a superb text for readers new to ecofeminist thought as well as seasoned scholars.
Climate justice requires attention to the historical roots of our environmental crises, and transformative philosophies to help foster liberation, respect for other animals, and a flourishing Earth. The multicultural conversation woven together in this brilliant volume shows why ecofeminist praxis is crucial for understanding the manifold harms of oppression, and nurturing more powerful ethics of resistance, caring, and solidarity.
With the growing interest in intersectional theories there has been a recent, renewed interest in ecofeminism. This book rises to meet this demand in the form of a collection of essays, which answers the concern of essentialism by embracing a wide range of scholarly voices from the field ... engaging and mind-opening ... a must-read for both feminists and also, no doubt, for meat-eaters.
This provocative new anthology is to be warmly welcomed for the diversity of its voices and the breadth of its critical analyses and agenda. Ecofeminism encompasses theory and lived experience at the multiple and sometimes contested intersections of gender identity, disability rights, race, and animal advocacy.
The past three decades or so have seen the publication of a fair number of collections presenting feminist perspectives on human-animal relations. So when coming to a new volume that walks this well-traversed terrain, it's hard not to approach it with the thought that there had really better be something new here. Happily, Ecofeminism delivers the fresh goods. … What the collection as a whole conveys, primarily, is the roots-in-the-dirt entanglement of the various strands of social life with human and nonhuman animals. With animal studies now making the transition from applied ethics to social philosophy, Ecofeminism makes worthy contributions to an emerging and exciting literature.
