Sister Species
Cloth: 06/20/2011
About the Book
In the process of animal activism--rescuing animals and providing sanctuary, exposing the cruelties of factory farming and vivisection, and lobbying against factory farming and the illegal trade in wildlife--the authors in Sister Species expose the many ways that our day-to-day actions might create and further oppression. Through straightforward and fascinating stories of women engaged with animal activism, this book explains the complex interconnections of speciesism, sexism, racism, and homophobia. Sister Species demonstrates why every woman ought to support animal activism, why every anymal activist ought be feminist, and why all social justice advocates ought to be vegan.Contributors: Carol J. Adams, Tara Sophia Bahna-James, Karen Davis, Elizabeth Jane Farians, Hope Ferdowsian, Linda Fisher, Twyla François, Christine Garcia, A. Breeze Harper, Sangamithra Iyer, Pattrice Jones, Lisa Kemmerer, Allison Lance, Ingrid Newkirk, Lauren Ornelas, and Miyun Park.
About the Author
Lisa Kemmerer is an associate professor of philosophy and religion at Montana State University, Billings, and an artist, activist, and wilderness adventurer who has traveled the world. She is the author of In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals and the poetry chapbook Curly Tails & Cloven Hooves.Reviews
"A collection of 10 compelling essays by a who's-who of accomplished activists, Sister Species offers insight and education through firsthand accounts. . . . The exceptionally inspiring and enlightening essays leave you longing for a sequel."--VegNews"A picture is worth a thousand words, and the cover of Lisa Kemmerer's anthology Sister Species is a doozy. . . . It's an eye-grabbing, opinion-provoking cover, and a fairly accurate preparation for the content featured in Sister Species.--Bitch
"Forceful in its rhetoric, the book is also a delight. . . . The conversational style of the writing makes it a high-quality read."--ForeWord
"Takes us on a unique journey of thought and self-discovery."--Journal for Critical Animals Studies
"Prompt[s] us to recognize that attention to nature and animals should be at the forefront of any feminist agenda."--SIGNS
"Through the empowering use of women's voices it exemplifies how the personal is political and reminds us that looking about us for our contribution to injustice elsewhere is a crucial part of fighting for liberation anywhere. . . . It is a call to action."--Hypatia
"Animal lovers will find this of clear interest, while those investigating women's lives will likely be surprised and intrigued by the issues it raises."--Booklist
"This is a book worth having on a personal and academic bookshelf to return to over and over again to remind ourselves that all species human and non-human deserve and need our protection and respect."--Gender and Education
"Kemmerer provides a space to embrace narrative and the unique experiences of women doing social justice work. . . . The growing discourse of ecofeminists and women animal advocates needs a larger library of texts like these."--Feminist Formations
Blurbs
"The diversity of contributors refutes the myth that concern for animal species is a white, middle class phenomenon. Compulsory motherhood, rape racks, slavery, the separation of mothers from infants--these are feminist issues, whether they occur in human cultures or in agriculture. Females are at the bottom of every gendered hierarchy--and animal activists are diversely raced, classed, and sexed. The time for exclusionary feminisms is over."--Greta Gaard, editor of Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature
"Through their stories, [these] women establish that the suffering of animals is an important concern for human beings; that women's involvement in animal advocacy is consistent with other traditions of women's social advocacy, and that there are connections among forms of oppression and that these connections require that we include animals in our advocacy."--from the foreword by Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
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