Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
Why Animals? 2
Animals-A Natural Category? 3
Anthropocentrism 4
Ecocentrism 5
The Invisibility of Animals in Social Thought 7
Overview 12
Further Reading 14
Chapter 1 The Human-Animal Bond
Animals as Family 15
Animals and Human Health 21
Companion Animals and Social Interaction 24
Animal-Assisted Therapy and Animal-Assisted Intervention 26
Animals in Prisons 29
Humane Education 33
Further Reading 36
Chapter 2 Social Institutions and Animals
Keeping Animals: Domestication 37
Early Domestication 39
A Short History of the Domestic Dog 41
Bestiality, Heresy, and the Control of Nature 44
The Institutionalization of Pet Keeping 45
Pet Keeping and Social Status 46
Eating Animals 50
Meat Eating and Climate Change 55
Further Reading 58
Chapter 3 Representing Animals
The Making of Meaning 60
Looking at Animals 65
Animals in Film 69
Watching Nature: "Wild" Animal Images 76
From Image to Reality: Dangerous Animals, Moral Panics, and Stigma 000
Further Reading 78
Chapter 4 Working with/for Animals
Animals and Ethnography 80
Animals and Human Identity 82
Human-Animal Interaction in the Laboratory 83
Slaughtering Animals 90
Distancing Through Production 92
Veterinarians 95
Animal Shelters 99
Further Reading 102
Chapter 5 Human - And Animal-Directed Violence
The Human-Animal Abuse "Link" 103
Human-Animal Abuse Connections 105
Graduation Versus Desensitization Theses 110
Broader Animal Abuse Perspectives 111
Criminology and Broader Human-Animal Abuse Perspectives 114
Animals, Abuse, and Power 117
Further Reading 120
Chapter 6 Protecting Animals
What Is Animal Protection? 123
How Do We Assess Animal Welfare? 127
A New Social Ethic for Animals 130
Attitudes Toward Animals 132
Animal Rights 136
The Birth of an Animal Rights Movement 136
The Philosophy of Animal Rights 141
The Influence of Darwinism 144
The Modern Debate 146
Christian Thought 147
The Renaissance and Legacy of Descartes 148
The Enlightenment and Beyond 148
Ecofeminism and an Ethic of Care for Animals 151
Further Reading 154
Conclusion: Critical Animal Studies and the Future of Human-Animal Studies
Posthumanism and Intersectionality 158
Critical Animal Studies and Capitalism 160
Moving Forward: An Animal Standpoint and Intersectionality? 165
Critical Animal Studies and the Academy 167
Further Reading 169
References 171
Index of Terms 191
Author Index 195
