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    Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World
    Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World
    Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World
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    Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World

    By Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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    Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. The contributors to Animal Subjects are scholars and writers from diverse perspectives whose work calls into question the boundaries that divide the animal kingdom from humanity, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between non-human animals and ourselves. The first of its kind to feature the work of Canadian scholars and writers in this emergent field, this collection aims to include the non-human-animal question as part of the ethical purview of Cultural Studies and to explore the question in interdisciplinary terms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press
    Release dateMay 20, 2008
    ISBN9781554580774
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