Neither Man Nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals | Carol J. Adams | Continuum | 1994 |
Neither Man Nor Beast explores the common link between cultural attitudes to women and animals in modern Western culture that have enabled the systematic exploitation of both. A vivid work that takes in environmental ethics, theological perspectives and feminist theory.
Table of Contents
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