Social Lives with Other Animals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Of Humans and Other Animals

   • Erika Cudworth

   Pages 1-19

3. Relations, Power and the Limits of ‘Speciesism’

   • Erika Cudworth

   Pages 20-54

4. Beyond Speciesism: Theorizing Difference and Domination

   • Erika Cudworth

   Pages 55-79

5. Sex: Carnal Desire and the Eating of Animals

   • Erika Cudworth

   Pages 80-104

6. Death: ‘Growing’ and Killing Animals

   • Erika Cudworth

   Pages 105-138

7. Love: Stories from the Lives of Companion Species

   • Erika Cudworth

   Pages 139-172

8. Difference and Domination Revisited

   • Erika Cudworth

   Pages 173-184

9. Back Matter

   Pages 185-210

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A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways Other animals are constitutive of human social lives at the dinner table, as livestock and as companions in our homes.

• Nation
• Sex
• sociology

"Overall, Social Lives with Other Animals makes a very useful contribution to the field because, first, its subject-matter other animals has largely been ignored theoretically and empirically until now. Cudworth is correct in her claim that sociology (and she could add the social sciences generally) have been resolutely human exclusive. Second, it reviews the existing theoretical literature from wide-ranging disciplines under one roof." - Sociology

• University of East London, UK

  Erika Cudworth

ERIKA CUDWORTH Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Sociology at the University of East London, UK. She is author of Environment and Society, Developing Ecofeminist Theory: The Complexity of Difference and co-author of The Modern State: Theories and Ideologies and Posthuman International Relations.

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