Although the roots of ecofeminism can be located in the work of women deners, outdoor
enthusiasts, environmental writers, botanists, scientists, a mal welfare activists, and …

The study of human-nonhuman animal relationships, like women's studies, is a relative
newcomer to the academy. Both grew partly out of political movements of the 1970s …

Studies of observer responses to human-to-human abuse have found that both an
observer's mood and the similarity of the victim to the observer affect the observer's desire to …

This research analyzes the overall arrest histories of persons aged 18-34 convicted for
weapon-related deer spotlighting in Virginia during 1997 and 1998. Deer spotlighting, or" …

Examining the state of political science's contribution to the field of animal studies depends,
to a large degree, upon the definition of “political science” one uses. If we define it in a …

Val Plumwood's recent attempt to formulate a" contextual" theory of vegetarianism that
integrates concern for animals, ecology, and unprivileged societies involves heavy criticism …

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, a group of American women
engaged in debate and action against the killing of birds for hats, resulting in one of the first …

This thesis is a sociological exploration of how people involved in commercial and hobby
livestock production, in Northeast Scotland, make sense of their relations with livestock, from …

This chapter draws upon a range of individual oral testimonies to illustrate some elements of
that changed relationship, and to show how this experience is echoed in other rural …

Les études sur les femmes et la religion sont devenues assez récemment et de façon rapide
un domaine de recherche et d'activité intellectuelle de plus en plus important qui offre de …