Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies

by Stephanie Jenkins (Editor), Chloë Taylor (Editor), Kelly Struthers Montford (Editor)

The fields of Critical Disability Studies and Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect? Disability and Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies explores some of the ways that the oppression of more-than-human animals and disabled humans are interconnected. Composed of thirteen chapters by an international team of specialists plus a Foreword by Lori Gruen, the book is divided into four This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral scholars, interested in Animal Studies, Disability Studies, Mad Studies, philosophy, and literary analysis. It will also appeal to those interested in the relationships between speciesism, ableism, saneism, and racism in animal agriculture, culture, built environments, and ethics.

Genres: Disability Studies

298 pages, Hardcover

Published April 15, 2020

Reviews

[Corvus · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great collection that is very readable for an academic text. My favorite contributions were the ones about the complicated and damaging legacy of Temple Grandin, but I liked pretty much all of these. I only skipped a couple at the end because I don't read analyses of books I haven't read yet.