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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Examining the Arrogant Eye
1: Eating Animals
The Case of the False Mass Term
The Sexual Politics of Meat
The Trojan Horse of the Nutrition Community
2: The Arrogant Eye and Animal Experimentation
Problem 1 The Arrogant Eye: The Human Male Gaze
Problem 2: Animal Experimentation
Problem 3: The Dominant Reality
Problem 4: Strangers and Other Victims
Problem 5: The Combining of Categories
Problem 6: Knowledge
Problem 7: Agents and Sadism
Problem 8: Consumption
Problem 9: What's the Difference?
3: Abortion Rights and Animal Rights
Premise 1 We Must Not Lose Sight of the Individual
Premise 2 Self-determination for Women and the Other Animals
Premise 3 The “Sentiency” of the Fetus and of Animals Are Not Similar
Premise 4 Our Definition of Personhood Is Culture-Bound
Premise 5 The Moral Dilemmas of Abortion Rights and Animal Rights Are Different
Premise 6 Identification with the Vulnerable Requires Defining Vulnerability
Premise 7 Abortion Rights Contributes to a Nonanthropocentric Ethic
Premise 8 A Striking Similarity Exists in the Medical Profession's Role in Making Abortion Illegal and in Opposing Antivivisectionism
Premise 9 Animal Defenders' Antiviolence Stance Should Align It with Women
Premise 10 The Argument about Nonbeing Reveals the Subjective Male Stance
4: On Beastliness and a Politics of Solidarity
The Politics of Otherness
The Animalizing Discourse of White Racism
Antiracist Encounters with the Animalizing Discourse
Conceptualizing Freedom—The Anthropocentric and Racist Way
Interlocking Systems of Domination
Ecofeminism and Solidarity
Fleshing Out the Connections
Defending Animals: A Progressive, Antiracist Possibility
Part 2: “We Are One Lesson”: Transforming Feminist Theory
5: Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals
1. Ecofeminism Explicitly Challenges the Domination of Animals
2. The Environmental Consequences of Eating Animals
3. The Invisible Animal Machines
4. The Social Construction of Edible Bodies and the Cultural Myth of Humans as Predators
5. Can Hunting Be Reconciled to Ecofeminist Ethics?
6. But Plants Have Life Too
7. Autonomy and Ecofeminist-Vegetarianism
6: The Feminist Traffic in Animals
Defining the Traffic in Animals
Discursive Control and Ignorance
Discursive Privacy
Ideology: Hiding the Social Construction of the Natural
Naturalizing the Political: 1
Politicizing the Natural: 1
Naturalizing the Political: 2
Feminist Defenses of Trafficking in Animals
Politicizing the Natural: 2
Consciousness, Solidarity, and Feminist-Vegetarian Conferences
7: Reflections on a Stripping Chimpanzee: on the Need to Integrate Feminism, Animal Defense, and Environmentalism
The Need to Integrate Animal Defense, Feminism, and Environmentalism
Five Questions/Five Vantage Points
Part 3: From Misery to Grace
8: Bringing Peace Home: a Feminist Philosophical Perspective on the Abuse of Women, Children, and Pet Animals
Terminology
Empirical Evidence
Philosophical Implications of the Empirical Connections
Implications for Feminist Peace Politics
9: Feeding on Grace: Institutional Violence, Feminist Ethics, and Vegetarianism
The Institutional Violence of Eating Animals
Resisting Institutionalized Violence
10: Beastly Theology: When Epistemology Creates Ontology
What Is Beastly Theology? The Patriarchal Christian Answer
The God Trick
An Excursus on Ontology and Epistemology
Transforming Beastly Theology
Coda
Appendix 1: Vestiges: 1992–93 / Susan kae Grant
Appendix 2: Feminists for Animal Rights
Notes
Bibliography
Copyright Acknowledgments
Index
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