CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I

Why Animal Studies Now?

1

A Report on the Animal Turn

2

Seeing Animals

PART II

Pet Tales

3

Is a Pet an Animal? Domestication and Animal Agency

4

Gendered Subjects/Abject Objects: Man(n)’s Best Friend

5

Dog Love/W(o)olf Love

PART III

Grieving Animals

6

A Proper Death

7

Thinking and Unthinking Animal Death:

Temple Grandin and J. M. Coetzee

PART IV

Ethical Bêtises

8

Animal Liberation or Shameless Freedom

“And Toto Too”:

Animal Studies, Posthumanism, and Oz

Notes

Index