Animal (Focus on Contemporary Issues (FOCI))

Fudge, Erica

ISBN 10: 1861891342 / ISBN 13: 9781861891341

Published by Reaktion Books, 2004

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

Seller Inventory # BSM.11W36

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Animal (Focus on Contemporary Issues (FOCI))
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861891342
• ISBN 13: 9781861891341
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

From the pet that we live with and care for, to news items such as animal cloning, and the use of various creatures in film, television and advertising, animals are a constant presence in our lives.

Animal is a timely overview of the many ways in which we live with animals, and assesses many of the paradoxes of our relationships with them: for example, why is the pet that sits by the dinner table never for eating? Examining novels such as Charlotte’s Web, films such as Old Yeller and Babe, science and advertising, fashion and philosophy, Animal also evaluates the ways in which we think about animals and challenges a number of the assumptions we hold. Why is it, for example, that animals are such a constant presence in children’s literature? And what does it mean to wear fake fur? Is fake fur an ethical avoidance of animal suffering, or merely a sanitized version of the unacceptable use of animals as clothing?

Neither evangelical nor proselytizing, Animal invites the reader to think beyond the boundaries of a subject that has a direct effect on our day-to-day lives.

About the Author

Erica Fudge is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, London. She is the author of Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture (1999).