Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior

Author:   Ambika Kamath ,  Melina Packer
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
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9780262049634


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   11 March 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior


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Author:   Ambika Kamath ,  Melina Packer
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9780262049634


ISBN 10:   0262049635
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   11 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Prologue: Why We Need a Feminist Science of Animal Behavior Chapter 1: The Stories We Tell About Animals Chapter 2: Variation Matters Chapter 3: The Problems with Sex Chapter 4: Queer Feminist Futures for Animal Sex Science Chapter 5: You and Me, Us and Them Chapter 6: Hiding in Plain Sight Chapter 7: Breaking the Hierarchies that Bind Epilogue: All That Can Change

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""Kamath and Packer explore how science has long projected human norms onto animal behavior and use feminist, queer and disability theories to challenge this oppressive practice."" —Ms. ""A very important, fascinating, and wide-ranging book."" —Psychology Today


Author Information

Ambika Kamath is trained as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She lives, works, and grows community in Oakland, California, on Ohlone land. Melina Packer is Assistant Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, on Ho-Chunk Nation land. She is the author of Toxic Sexual Politics- Toxicology, Environmental Poisons, and Queer Feminist Futures.

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