© Columbia University Press
The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics
Paper, 400 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14039-3
$24.50
/ £14.50
November, 2007
Cloth, 400 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14038-6
$74.50
/ £44.00
"Ten years after the foundational collection of essays moving Beyond Animal Rights to a feminist ethic of care for all animal species, the work in this field has doubled in size and scope. Collected in this volume are essays calling for a feminist animal care ethic that is political and activist in orientation. Here are the paths to interspecies justice, with arguments that appeal equally to reason and emotion, logic and empathy. They prove that true emotional intelligence requires a compassionate ethical response to animal suffering and human complicity alike." — Greta Gaard, author of Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature
"Every scholar interested in social (in)justice should read this book. As a compelling examination of the workings of power, prejudice, and ideology, this powerful anthology lays down a challenge to all progressive scholarship and politics—whether 'animal-identified' or not. As a nuanced and sophisticated framework for a feminist approach to social relationships, the articulation of a 'care tradition' in human-animal relations is transformative. The editors do a tremendous service by bringing together some of the classic essays in the field with some of the sharpest new criticism and commentary. This collection is an invaluable source and resource that every feminist should have on her bookshelf." — Joni Seager, professor and dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto