Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals

 (Continuum, 1994)

Choice has said of this volume, "[Adams's] thinking is brilliant and original, and this volume belongs in every women's studies, theology, and environmental ethics collection."

Part 1: Examining the Arrogant Eye

1.   Eating Animals

2.  The Arrogant Eye and Animal Experimentation

3.  Abortion Rights and Animal Rights

4.  On Beastliness and a Politics of Solidarity

Part 2: "We Are One Lesson": Transforming Feminist Theory

1.     Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals

2.  The Feminist Traffic in Animals

3.     Reflections on a Stripping Chimpanzee: On the Need to Integrate Feminism, Animal Defense, and Environmentalism

Part 3: From Misery to Grace

1.     Bringing Peace Home: A Feminist Philosophical Perspective on the Abuse of Women, Children, and Pet Animals

2.     Feeding on Grace: Institutional Violence, Feminist Ethics, and Vegetarianism

3.  Beastly Theology: When Epistemology Constructs Ontology

“The best of feminist animal rights theorizing … reimagines a human relationship to the nonhuman world by locating action and theory in the lived world and moral universe of women’s identity and on the basis of feminist political insights. As a genre, feminist animal rights theorizing thus emerges as one of the sharpest cutting edges of contemporary philosophical and environmental work. Four anthologies encompass the range of this work: a special issue of Hypatia edited by Karen Warren in 1991; Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature, edited by Greta Gaard (1993); Carol Adams and Josephine Donovan’s anthology Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations (Adams and Donovan 1995); and a second anthology by the same editors, Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals (Donovan and Adams 1996).”

--Joni Seager, “Rachel Carson Died of Breast Cancer: The Coming Age of Feminist Environmentalism”  Signs 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 445-72.

Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations

Edited with Josephine Donovan (Duke University Press, 1995)

Table of Contents

Part 1: Sexism/Speciesism: Interlocking Oppression

•   Joan Dunayer: Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots

•    Lynda Birke :  Exploring the Boundaries: Feminism, Animals and Science

•    Carol J. Adams: Woman-Battering and Harm to Animals

•   Marti Kheel: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunters' Discourse

•   Maria Comninou: Speech, Pornography, and Hunting

•   Gary L. Francione: Abortion and Animal Rights: Are They Comparable Issues?

Part 2: Alternative Stories

•   Linda Vance: Beyond Just-So Stories: Narrative, Animals, and Ethics

•   Karen Davis: Thinking Like a Chicken: Farm Animals and the Feminine Connection

•   Diane Antonio: Of Wolves and Women

•   Marian Scholtmeijer: The Power of Otherness: Animals in Women's Fiction

•    Reginald Abbott: Birds Don't Sing in Greek: Virginia Woolf and "The Plumage Bill"

•   Brian Luke: Taming Ourselves or Going Feral? Toward a Nonpatriarchal Metaethic of Animal Liberation

•    Susanne Kappeler: Speciesism, Racism, Nationalism... or the Power of Scientific Subjectivity

Bibliography of Feminist Approaches to Animal Issues

Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals

edited with Josephine Donovan (Continuum).

Table of Contents

•   The Liberation of Nature: A Circular Affair, By Marti Kheel

•    Animal Rights and Feminist Theory,  By Josephine Donovan

•    Toward an Ecological Ethic of Care,  By Deane Curtin

•    Justice, Caring, and Animal Liberation,  By Brian Luke

•    Caring forAnimals,  By Rita C. Manning

•    The Caring Sleuth: Portrait of an Animal Rights Activist,  By Kenneth Shapiro

•    Attention to Suffering: Sympathy as a Basis for Ethical Treatment of Animals,  By Josephine Donovan

•    Caring about Suffering: A Feminist Exploration,  By Carol J. Adams