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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Series
Dedication
Title
Contents
Illustrations
Preface to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments for the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition
Part One 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
The Less Real the Other
The Less of a Subject the Other
The Less Alive the Other
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
Artist’s Statement: Some Thoughts on slink
4 On Beastliness and a Politics of Solidarity
The Politics of Otherness
The Animalizing Discourse of 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
Artist’s Statement
Part Two “We Are One Lesson”: Transforming Feminist Theory
5 Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals
1. Ecofeminism Explicitly Challenges the Domination of Animals
Another described the process of identification this way:
2. The Environmental Consequences of Eating Animals
The Costs to the Environment of a Flesh Diet
Uniting Consumption, Maintenance, and Production
Maintenance is Productive: The Individual Level
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
Meat as a Mass Term
Ontologizing Animals as “Naturally” Consumable
Politicizing the Natural: 1
The Limitations of a Species-Specific Philosophy
Our Current Ontology of Animals Is Unacceptable
“Predation” Is Oppressive
Naturalizing the Political: 2
The Flight from Specificity
Feminist Defenses of Trafficking in Animals
Confusing Privilege with Autonomy
Pluralism
Politicizing the Natural: 2
The Politics of Consciousness
The Politics of Solidarity
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
Feminist Analysis of the Status of Animals
Animal Defense and Environmentalism
The Contributions of Ecological Feminism
Five Questions/Five Vantage Points
Are Animals to Humans as Women are to Men? Exploring a Variety of Cultural Dualisms
What Is the Role of Reason and Rationality in Determining the Situation of Women and Animals in Western Philosophy?
What Is the Place of Emotion and Feeling in Morality?
What Is Knowledge and How Do We Gain It?
Is “Rights” Right?
Part Three 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
Conceptual Analysis
Epistemological Issues
Political Philosophy
Environmental Philosophy
Applied Philosophy
Implications for Feminist Peace Politics
9 Feeding on Grace: Institutional Violence, Feminist Ethics, and Vegetarianism
The Institutional Violence of Eating Animals
The Institutional Violence of Eating Animals Is an Infringement on or Failure to Acknowledge Another’s Inviolability
Institutional Violence Involves Treatment and/or Physical Force That Injures or Abuses
Institutional Violence Requires a Series of Denial Mechanisms
Institutional Violence Targets “Appropriate” Victims
Institutional Violence Has Identifiable Detrimental Effects on the Society as a Whole
The Final Condition of Institutional Violence Is That Consumers Are Manipulated into Passivity Regarding This Practice
Genesis and the Institutionalized Violence of Eating Animals
Resisting Institutionalized Violence
Artist’s Statement: Vestiges (1992–93)
10 Beastly Theology: When Epistemology Creates Ontology
What Is Beastly Theology? The Patriarchal Christian Answer
Value Hierarchies and Dualisms
Metaphors of Domination
The “God” of the Man of Reason
The Categorization of Animals and the “God” of the Man of Reason
The God Trick
The God Trick and Animals
Agreeing Not to Play the God Trick
An Excursus on Ontology and Epistemology
Transforming Beastly Theology
Second-Person Theology
From Beastly Theologies to Second-Person Theologies
Coda
Activist Statement
Bibliography
Copyright Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Copyright
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