Reading and Media Resources

An overview of how animals resist in the context of capitalism, domestication, and colonization. Examines the ways in which animal resisters are portrayed, how their resistance disrupts both the...

Ryder, who coined the term “speciesism,” provides this very illuminating history of attitudes towards nonhuman animals.

Overview and introduction to the area of animal rights, from anti-cruelty and animal welfare laws, to legal personhood rights for animals, drawing on examples from both common law and civil law...

Focuses on the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals, argues that exploitation of other animals has always gone hand in hand with the oppression of women, people of color, and...

Focusing on the broad political and cultural background of organizations in England responding to animal cruelty such as the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association and the...

A manifesto on the need to abolish, not regulate, animal use.

Investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the ways in which exotic pets are fetishized and commodified and calls for a “wild life” politics allowing animals to live for the sake...

This book explores the relationship between trade disciplines and animal welfare in the international trade law regime by studying the landmark EC - Seal Products case, which confirmed the importance...

Explores the key animal welfare challenges facing China now, including animal agriculture, bear farming, and the trade and consumption of exotic wildlife, dog meat, and other controversial products...

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...