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  • Regarding Animals

    Series series Animals Culture And Society
    Winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1997The first edition of Regarding Animals provided insight into the history and practice of how human beings construct animals, and how we construct ourselves and others in relation to them. Considerable progress in how society regards animals has occurred since that time. However, shelters continue to ... Read more

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  • Underdogs

    Pets, People, and Poverty

    Series series Animal Voices / Animal Worlds
    Underdogs looks into the rapidly growing initiative to provide veterinary care to underserved communities in North Carolina and Costa Rica and how those living in or near poverty respond to these forms of care. For many years, the primary focus of the humane community in the United States was to control animal overpopulation and alleviate the stray dog problem by euthanizing or sterilizing dogs ... Read more

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  • Just a Dog

    Animal Cruelty, Self, and Society

    by Arnold Arluke ...
    Series series Animals Culture And Society
    Psychiatrists define cruelty to animals as a psychological problem or personality disorder. Legally, animal cruelty is described by a list of behaviors. In Just a Dog, Arnold Arluke argues that our current constructs of animal cruelty are decontextualized—imposed without regard to the experience of the groups committing the act. Yet those who engage in animal cruelty have their own understandings ... Read more

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  • What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

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  • The Spirit Level

    Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

    Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it."Get your hands on this book."-Bill MoyersThis groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the ... Read more

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  • The Essential Questions

    Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations

    Uncover new sides of family members you’ve known your entire life with this indispensable guide that includes space for journaling.Just as the oral histories of people around the world are disappearing amid rapid change, there is a risk that your family’s personal stories, too, will be lost forever. In The Essential Questions, anthropologist Elizabeth Keating helps you to uncover the unique ... Read more

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  • What's a Dog For?

    The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend

    by John Homans ...
    John Homans adopted his dog, Stella, from a shelter for all the usual reasons: fond memories of dogs from his past, a companion for his son, an excuse for long walks around the neighborhood. Soon enough, she is happily ensconced in the daily workings of his family. And not only that: Stella is treated like a family member—in ways that dogs of his youth were not. Spending humanlike sums on vet ... Read more

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  • The Fat Studies Reader

    Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in PsychologyWinner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture AssociationA milestone anthology of fifty-three voices on the burgeoning scholarly movement—fat studiesWe have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the ... Read more

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  • Beasts of Burden

    Animal and Disability Liberation

    Author platform: Taylor is well known in disability studies, arts, and activist circles and an experienced public speaker, with appearances at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, California College for the Arts, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the New School, among others. She has been interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered and appeared in a popular ... Read more

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  • A Healthy Society

    How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy

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  • Animals and Society

    An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

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    Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human–animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of research, featuring a number of distinct positions, perspectives, and theories that require nuanced explanation and contextualization.The first ... Read more

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