Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies

Amber E. George is assistant professor at Galen College of Nursing.

Introduction: The Entanglements of Sexuality, Gender, and Species in Critical Animal Studies

Amber E. George

Part I: Challenging Speciesism, Patriarchy, and Heterosexism in Literature

Chapter 1: Animals and the Absent Referent in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Kelly Svoboda

Chapter 2: “the animals and birds were left in peace”: Katharine Burdekin’s Queer Utopian Ecology

Sarah D’Stair

Part II: Liberating Nonhumans in the Classroom and Laboratory

Chapter 3: Queering Our Relations with Nonhuman Animals: Multispecies Sexuality Beyond the Laboratory

Mitch Goldsmith

Chapter 4: Teaching to Become Intersectional Allies: Engaged Activism, Ecofeminism, Anarchism, and Building Resistance in the Classroom

Damla Isik

Part III: Disrupting the Gendered and Sexual Violence Against Nonhuman Animals

Chapter 5: The “Unnatural,” “Immoral” Hyena and the Implications for Conservation Strategy

Annika Hugosson

Chapter 6: Humanity and Honeybees: The Inhumane Treatment of Honey Bees and Where We Go From Here

Samantha Orsulak

Chapter 7: Of Rats and Women: A Cross-Species Read of Space and Place

Samentha Sepúlveda and Emily Plec



Part IV: Biological and Reproductive Justice for Nonhumans

Chapter 8: Reproduction or the Lack Thereof: A Mode of Oppression, a Means to Liberation?

Sarah Tomasello, April Piazza, Nathan Poirier

Chapter 9: Intersex Inclusion: Indeterminant Sex and Gender Acceptance for Nonhuman Animals

Amber E. George

Part V: Decoding the Sexual Subjectivity of Nonhumans

Chapter 10: Can the Animal Consent? Zoophilia and the Limits of Logocentrism

Anastassiya Andrianova

Chapter 11: The Zoo Closet: On Whether Bestiality is a Queer Liberation Ethic

Jess Ison