Animal Others—Editors' Introduction

Gruen, Lori; Weil, Kari

doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2012.01296.x

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“…Research in the feminist ethic-of-care tradition—for example, Donovan and Adams [ 55 ]—adds another layer to our understanding of how the subjects of the current study are gendered. Grounded in Carol Gilligan’s landmark In a Different Voice [ 56 ], and in a rejection of hierarchies of domination (male/female; human/animal, mind/body, reason/emotion, nature/culture) explored by Haraway [ 57 , 58 ] and Adams and Gruen [ 59 ], this tradition asks political questions about the context in which animals are (mis)treated [ 55 ], about how the world would look from animals’ perspectives [ 60 , 61 ], and considers not just the rights of animals, but humans’ responsibilities to, and relationships with, them [ 62 , 63 ]. Gilligan [ 56 ] argues that women’s morality would be based on a tradition of care for others.…”

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The Impact of the Sex of Handlers and Riders on the Reported Social Confidence, Compliance and Touch Sensitivity of Horses in Their Care

Anzulewicz

Fenner

Hyde

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Animals

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Current evidence of how human sex-related differences in riders and handlers may influence horse behaviour is limited. The Equine Behaviour Assessment and Research Questionnaire (E-BARQ) was used to collect demographic data on riders and handlers (n = 1420) and behavioural data on their horses. It includes demographic items about the sex of the respondent and how frequently the horse has been ridden or handled by male and female humans. The questionnaire then gathers observations on the horse’s behaviour on the ground and under saddle or when driven. Using E-BARQ’s battery of 97 questions, the current study showed differences in ridden and non-ridden horse behaviour that were related to the sex of the rider or handler. Data were evaluated using multivariate analysis and revealed that horses handled by male humans were significantly more difficult to catch (t-value = −3.11; p = 0.002) and significantly more defensive when approached (t-value = −2.104; p = 0.035), but significantly less likely to pull on the reins/brace the neck or toss their head (t-value 1.980; p = 0.048) than horses handled more frequently by female humans. The differences found between male and female horse handlers suggest that sex is an important factor to consider when understanding equine behaviour. Our study explored reported differences in confidence, handling and working compliance and touch sensitivity among horses ridden and handled by male and female humans and suggested further research into how these differences are gendered.

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The Impact of the Sex of Handlers and Riders on the Reported Social Confidence, Compliance and Touch Sensitivity of Horses in Their Care

Anzulewicz

Fenner

Hyde

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“…If we look beyond the repeated citing of Adams, we find that contemporary animal studies, including in its feminist inflection, draws on a range of critical theories, including psychoanalysis, queer and gender studies, postcolonialism and affect theory. Two recent special issues on animals in the feminist journals Feminism & Psychology (Potts, 2010b) and Hypatia (Gruen and Weil, 2012a) are indicative of this intellectual multiplicity, 9 demonstrating more scope for disagreement and debate across their pages than the ecofeminist volumes noted above. Yet, here too Adams' work is accorded a special place.…”

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“…Two recent special issues on animals in the feminist journals Feminism & Psychology (Potts, 2010b) and Hypatia (Gruen and Weil, 2012a) are indicative of this intellectual multiplicity, 9 demonstrating more scope for disagreement and debate across their pages than the ecofeminist volumes noted above. Yet, here too Adams' work is accorded a special place.…”

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“…10 Adams is referenced in six of ten contributions to Feminism & Psychology (Potts, 2010a); the issue also begins with her article 'Why feminist vegan now' (Adams, 2010). In the opening symposium of Hypatia (Gruen and Weil, 2012a), Adams is cited in four of the six interventions, sometimes alone, sometimes alongside other ecofeminist scholars (e.g. Donovan, Gruen and Kheel).…”

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Sex, Work, Meat: The Feminist Politics of Veganism

Hamilton

2016

Feminist Review

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Since the publication of The Sexual Politics of Meat in 1990, activist and writer Carol J. Adams (2000 [1990) has put forth a feminist defence of veganism based on the argument that meat consumption and violence against animals are structurally related to violence against women, and especially to pornography and prostitution. Adams' work has been influential in the growing fields of animal studies and posthumanism, where her research is frequently cited as the prime example of vegan feminism. However, her particular radical feminist framework, including her anti-pornography and anti-prostitution arguments, are rarely acknowledged or critiqued. This article challenges the premises of Adams' argument, demonstrating that her version of vegan feminism is based upon an unsubstantiated comparison between violence against women and violence against other-than-human animals, and on the silencing and exclusion of sex workers as subjects. The article contests the limited reading of Adams, and of feminism, offered in some key works in animal studies and posthumanism, at the same time that it recognises the need to challenge the anthropocentrism evident in much feminist theory. By way of alternative approaches to the sexual politics of veganism, the article highlights the interventions of artist and activist Mirha-Soleil Ross, proposing that her situated and embodied commitment to animal rights brings sex worker agency into the story, while resisting simple comparisons among different forms of violence. The concerns raised by Ross overlap in compelling ways with recent research in performance studies and labour history, bringing the question of work and workers, animal and human, to the fore. These studies point towards a potentially more useful framework than that of Adams for understanding the human violence suffered by different species, including those destined to be eaten by people.

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“…In feminist research, human-animal relationships have been theorized (see e.g. Gruen 1993;Adams and Donovan 1995;Donovan 2006;Gruen and Weil 2012), but the focus has not usually been on everyday bodily contacts, which are central in animal husbandry. The work of cattle tending encompasses the element of corporeality in various ways, because it is physical work in which both strength and handiness is needed.…”

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Of Cows and Women: Gendered Human-Animal Relationships in Finnish Agriculture

Kaarlenkaski¹

2014

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Animal Others—Editors' Introduction

Cited by 23 publications

References 14 publications

The Impact of the Sex of Handlers and Riders on the Reported Social Confidence, Compliance and Touch Sensitivity of Horses in Their Care

The Impact of the Sex of Handlers and Riders on the Reported Social Confidence, Compliance and Touch Sensitivity of Horses in Their Care

Sex, Work, Meat: The Feminist Politics of Veganism

Of Cows and Women: Gendered Human-Animal Relationships in Finnish Agriculture

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