The Animals Reader

Linda Kalof is Professor in the Dept. of Sociology at Michigan State University. She is author of Looking at Animals in Human History and co-editor of The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Values and the forthcoming major multi-volume works, A Cultural History of Animals and A Cultural History of the Human Body. Amy J. Fitzgerald is on the faculty in the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and author of Animal Abuse and Family Violence.

Prologue: Animals, by Randy Malamud Editorial Introduction, by Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald Part 1. Animals as Philosophical and Ethical Subjects Introduction 1. Aristotle. The History of Animals 2. Jeremy Bentham. Principles of Morals and Legislation 3. Marjorie Spiegel. In Defense of Slavery 4. Peter Singer. Animal Liberation or Animal Rights? 5. Tom Regan. The Rights of Humans and Other Animals 6. Martha Nussbaum. The Moral Status of Animals 7. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Becoming-Animal Further Reading Part 2. Animals as Reflexive Thinkers Introduction 8. Michel de Montaigne. An Apology for Raymond Sebond 9. Rene Descartes. From the Letters of 1646 and 1649 10. Clinton R. Sanders and Arnold Arluke. Speaking for Dogs 11. Marc Bekoff. Wild Justice and Fair Play: Cooperation, Forgiveness, and Morality in Animals 12. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy. Grief, Sadness, and the Bones of Elephants 13. Carel P. van Schaik, Marc Ancrenaz, Gwendolyn Borgen, Birute Galdikas, Cheryl D. Knott, Ian Singleton, Akira Suzuki, Sri Suci Utami, and Michelle Merrill. Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture Further Reading Part 3. Animals as Domesticates, "Pets" and Food Introduction 14. Steven Mithen. The Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory of Human-Animal Interactions 15. Harriet Ritvo. Animal Planet 16. Yi-Fu Tuan. Animal Pets: Cruelty and Affection 17. Plutarch. The Eating of Flesh 18. Jim Mason and Mary Finelli. Brave New Farm? 19. Carol J. Adams. The Sexual Politics of Meat 20. David Nibert. The Promotion of "Meat" and its Consequences Further Reading Part 4. Animals as Spectacle and Sport Introduction 21. Pliny the Elder. Combats of Elephants 22. Garry Marvin. On Being Human in the Bullfight 23. Rhonda Evans, DeAnn K. Gauthier and Craig J. Forsyth. Dogfighting: Symbolic Expression and Validation of Masculinity 24. Randy Malamud. Zoo Spectatorship 25. Matt Cartmill. Hunting and Humanity in Western Thought Further Reading Part 5. Animals as Symbols Introduction 26. John Berger. Why Look at Animals? 27. Claude Levi-Strauss. The Totemic Illusion 28. Boria Sax. Animals as Tradition 29. Steve Baker. What is the Postmodern Animal? 30. Jonathan Burt. The Illumination of the Animal Kingdom: The Role of Light and Electricity in Animal Representation Further Reading Part 6. Animals as Scientific Objects Introduction 31. Coral Lansbury. The Brown Dog Riots of 1907 32. Lynda Birke. Into the Laboratory 33. Sarah Whatmore. Hybrid Geographies: Rethinking the "Human" in Human Geography 34. Sarah Franklin. Dolly's Body: Gender, Genetics and the New Genetic Capital 35. Donna Haraway. Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience Further Reading