Reading and Media Resources: Social Sciences

Artist, social critic and disability rights and animal rights advocate Sunaura Taylor examines the question of how physical and mental capabilities contribute to our understanding of what it means to...

Examines the human-animal relationship and the laws designed to protect it and calls for consideration of why some harms to animals are defined as criminal, others as abusive but not criminal and...

Case studies showing how controversial animal practices can become intensely racialized, including live animal markets in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the Makah whaling dispute, and the case of Michael...

A detailed analysis of the modern dairy industry from the perspective of its effects on the animals involved. Includes such topics as the difficulties of conducting research regarding the conditions...

A political scientist who has written prolifically about animals argues here that our thinking about the proper way to treat animals should be rooted in concepts of justice. While acknowledging that...

An analysis of the politics of gender in the animal rights movement based on in-depth interviews with women animal rights activists.

An early proponent of the idea that animals could be entitled to rights, Salt wrote: "If we are ever going to do justice to the lower races, we must get rid of the antiquated notion of a 'great gulf'...

Examines the dramatic variance in the narratives assigned different animals in a high-intake animal shelter and how those narratives dictate their chances for survival. Argues that these inequalities...

An installment in the Routledge Environmental Humanities series consisting of a wide range of essays in animal studies.

A textbook for a course in human–animal studies focusing on interactions between humans and animals within the family, the law, religion, politics, etc., including such topics as speciesism...