Trying to give an overview of the burgeoning area known as animal studies is, if you'll permit
me the expression, a bit like herding cats. My recourse to that analogy is meant to suggest …

This article explores the ways and extent to which feminism helps investigate interspecies
relations and the lives of animals in academic scholarship. It argues that animals need …

Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories
of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between …

Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan's working-class lover in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby,
wants “one of those police dogs” as an ornament “for the apartment,” because “they are nice …

Elephants were vital agents of empire. In British Burma their unique abilities made them
essential workers in the colony's booming teak industry. Their labour was integral to the …

According to imperial writings, the Burmese were too close to animals, both physically and
emotionally. It was claimed that some Burmese people had innate connections to animals …

Lucinda Cole: In his 2003 book, Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species,
and Posthumanist Theory, Cary Wolfe attempts to develop a posthuman-ist account of the …

This paper explores new ways to write history that engages with the lives of animals. It offers
a sample card of how social history can be enriched by focusing on history from an animal …

This essay explores the symbiotic relationship between animal welfare and ideologies of
nation building and exceptionalism during a series of struggles over cockfighting in the new …

This paper argues for the need to create a more animal-centred history of medicine, in which
animals are considered not simply as the backdrop for human history, but as medical …