Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Sexism/Speciesism: Interlocking Oppressions -- I Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots -- 2 Exploring the Boundaries: Feminism, Animals, and Science -- 3 Carol J. Adams Woman-Battering and Harm to Animals -- 4 License to Kill: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunters' Discourse -- 5 Speech, Pornography, and Hunting -- 6 Abortion and Animal Rights: Are They Comparable Issues? -- Part 2 Alternative Stories -- 7 Beyond Just-So Stories: Narrative, Animals, and Ethics -- 8 Thinking Like a Chicken: Farm Animals and the Feminine Connection -- 9 Of Wolves and Women -- 10 The Power of Otherness: Animals in Women's Fiction -- II Birds Don't Sing in Greek: Virginia Woolf and "The Plumage Bill" -- Appendix: "The Plumage Bill" -- 12 Taming Ourselves or Going Feral? Toward a Nonpatriarchal Metaethic of Animal Liberation -- 13 Speciesism, Racism, Nationalism ... or the Power of Scientific Subjectivity -- Bibliography of Feminist Approaches to Animal Issues -- Notes on Contributors -- Index