| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Feminist technosciences
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Feminist technosciences.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Gimme shelter: saviorist storying, animal "rescue," and interspecies intersectionalities -- The human, the animal, the episteme -- "Becoming in kind": race, class, gender, and nation in cultures of dog rescue and dogfighting -- Queer* imaginings and affiliative possibilities -- Conclusion. Imagining otherwise. |
| Summary |
"Pit bulls and pit bull-type dogs spark intense controversies, from breed bans to fierce defenses by shelter and rescue organizations and breed advocates. Bad Dog draws from the increasingly contentious world of human/dog politics, featuring rich ethnographic research with dogs and their advocates that explores the ways that relationships between humans and animals do not just reflect but actively shape experiences of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, breed, and species. Weaver develops the concept of interspecies intersectionalities, bridging discussions in animal studies with feminist, critical race, queer, and trans theories. Contrasting ways of knowing that involve harm reduction-style efforts oriented toward keeping humans and animals together and shelter-based practices of working and playing with dogs, with the white, middle-class "family values" inherent in the work of most animal rescuers, Weaver proposes a reading of interspecies intersectionalities that alters what it means to touch, feel, and think with animals. Bad Dog gives us, in detailed and careful analysis, a means to move beyond the zero-sum logic where caring for animals is seen in opposition to caring for humans, and, instead, suggests a powerful way in which we might think with marginalized humans and animals together"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pit bull terriers -- Social aspects.
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Pit bull terriers. |
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Social aspects. |
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Designer dogs.
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Designer dogs. |
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Intersectionality (Sociology)
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Intersectionality (Sociology) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Intersectionality. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Weaver, Harlan. Bad dog Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020] 9780295748016 (DLC) 2020020395 |
| ISBN |
9780295748030 electronic book |
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0295748036 electronic book |
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9780295748016 hardcover |
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9780295748023 paperback |
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