I grew up biracial in a racially homogeneous white town near Paris. Négresse and noiraude,
the usual racial slurs, were nothing next to the exaggerated, so-called African accent that …

In the years since publication of the first edition of this book, the field of HAS has exploded.
There are now more courses offered at more colleges and universities than ever before …

Dangerous Crossings offers an interpretation of the impassioned disputes that have arisen
in the contemporary United States over the use of animals in the cultural practices of …

We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural
interventions are throwing the status of “human” into question. It is against this context that …

Formulated in the 1980s and gaining prominence in the early 1990s, by the end of that
decade ecofeminism was critiqued as essentialist and effectively discarded. Fearing their …

Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an
appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined …

In this much-needed account of what has gone wrong in our thinking about the environment,
Val Plumwood digs at the roots of environmental degradation. She argues that we need to …

In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea
Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence—perpetrated by the state …

Non-human animals are ubiquitous in human lives: we dress with their fur and their skin, we
eat their meat, and we visit them in zoos and aquaria (DeMello, 2012). Some of us construct …

How are the unjustified dominations of women and other humans connected to the
unjustified domination of animals and nonhuman nature? What are the characteristics of …