In Beyond Animal Rights, Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams introduced feminist "ethic of care" theory into philosophical discussions of the treatment of animals. In this new volume, seven essays from Beyond Animal Rights are joined by nine new articles-most of which were written in response to that book-and a new introduction that situates feminist animal care theory within feminist theory and the larger debate over animal rights. Contributors critique theorists' reliance on natural rights doctrine and utilitarianism, which, they suggest, have a masculine bias. They argue for ethical attentiveness and sympathy in our relationships with animals and propose a link between the continuing subjugation of women and the human domination of nature. Beginning with the earliest articulation of the idea in the mid-1980s and continuing to the theory's most recent revisions, this volume presents the most complete portrait of the evolution of the feminist-care tradition.
Price: $38.00
Pages: 400
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
06 December 2007
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.12 in
ISBN: 9780231140393
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
At the center of feminist inquiry, forcing us to face hard and interesting questions.
Josephine Donovan is professor emerita at the University of Maine and the author of Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions and Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726, among other books.Carol J. Adams is an independent scholar whose focus is on interrelated oppressions and whose books include The Sexual Politics of Meat, Prayers for Animals, and The Inner Art of Vegetarianism. Please visit her web site at www.caroljadams.com.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The War on Compassion (2006)
Carol J. Adams
Part I: Foundational Articles by 1985-1996
1. The Liberation of Nature: A Circular Affair (1985)
Marti Kheel
2. Animal Rights and Feminist Theory (1990)
Josephine Donovan
3. Toward an Ecological Ethic of Care (1991)
Deane Curtin
4. Your Daughter or Your Dog? A Feminist Assessment of the Animal Research Issue (1991)
Deborah Slicer
5. Justice, Caring, and Animal Liberation
Brian Luke
6. The Caring Sleuth: Portrait of an Animal Rights Activist (1994)
Kenneth Shapiro
7. Attention to Suffering: Sympathy as a Basis for Ethical Treatment of Animals (1994)
Josephine Donovan
8. Caring About Suffering: A Feminist Exploration (1995)
Carol J. Adams
Part II: Responses by 1998-2006
9. Toward a Non-Property Status for Animals (1998)
Thomas G. Kelch
10. Protecting Children and Animals from Abuse: A Trans-Species Concept of Caring (1999)
James Garbarino
11. The Role of the Rational and the Emotive in a Theory of Animal Rights (1999)
Thomas G. Kelch
12. The Ethic of Care and the Problem of Wild Animals (2003)
Grace Clement
13. Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights (2004)
Catharine A. MacKinnon
14. Empathy and Vegetarian Commitments (2004)
Lori Gruen
15. On the Backs of Animals: The Valorization of Reason in Contemporary Animal Ethics (2005)
Cathryn Bailey
16. Caring to Dialogue: Feminism and the Treatment of Animals (2006)
Josephine Donovan
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
