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Winner of the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is a diverse and intersectional collection which examines human and more-than-human animal relations, as well as the interconnectedness of human and animal oppressions through various lenses. Comprising fifty chapters, the book explores a range of debates and scholarship within important contemporary topics such as companion animals, hunting, agriculture, and animal activist strategies. It also offers timely analyses of zoonotic disease pandemics, mass extinction, and the climate catastrophe, using perspectives including feminist, critical race, anti-colonial, critical disability, and masculinities studies. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is an essential reference for students in gender studies, sexuality studies, human-animal studies, cultural studies, sociology, and environmental studies.

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""The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is an immense achievement. Taylor (Univ. of Alberta, Canada) has done a superb job of acquiring, editing, proofing, and introducing the 50 original chapters in this weighty collection (notably, however, each is one set in smallish font). Representing almost every corner of the Anglophone world, the 49 authors offer cutting-edge, intersectional thinking on human and more-than-human animal relationships through a variety of critical perspectives, representing, for example, (eco)feminist, critical race, anti-colonial, critical disability, queer, and masculinity studies. In her lengthy introduction, Taylor itemizes several key reasons why it is important to think about issues of gender and animals together, skillfully showing how and why, given the current era of climate catastrophe, we must find paths toward multispecies justice. The collection has nine parts covering theoretical foundations, intersectional veganisms, feminist care ethics, feminist multispecies methods, transfeminisms, masculinities, gender and animals in folklore and fiction, activism and advocacy, multispecies justice, and multispecies futures. This particular Routledge Companion is crucial reading for all scholars and students working in the multidisciplinary field of critical animal studies."" - Piers Beirne, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies at University of Southern Maine, USA

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Chloë Taylor is a feminist philosopher, critical animal studies scholar, and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of three monographs, co-editor of five previous books, and founder of the North American Association for Critical Animal Studies.

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