Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Examining the Arrogant Eye

1. Eating Animals

2. The Arrogant Eye and Animal Experimentation

3. Abortion Rights and Animal Rights

4. On Beastliness and a Politics of Solidarity

Part 2: "We Are One Lesson": Transforming Feminist Theory

5. Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals

6. The Feminist Traffic in Animals

7. Reflections on a Stripping Chimpanzee: On the Need to Integrate Feminism, Animal Defense, and Environmentalism

Part 3: From Misery to Grace

8. Bringing Peace Home: A Feminist Philosophical Perspective on the Abuse of Women, Children, and Pet Animals

9. Feeding on Grace: Institutional Violence, Feminist Ethics, and Vegetarianism

10. Beastly Theology: When Epistemology Creates Ontology

Coda

Appendix 1: Vestiges: 1992-93 by Susan kae Grant

Appendix 2: Feminists for Animal Rights

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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. She is the co-editor of several pathbreaking anthologies, including most recently Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (with Lori Gruen). 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.