Animal; Author: Fudge, Erica; Paperback

Author: Fudge, Erica
Focus on Contemporary Issues; Paperback; 6 Illustrations
184 pages
Published: September 2002
Reaktion Books Ltd
ISBN: 1861891342

Animal assesses the way we live with animals, examining the paradoxes of our relationships with them. Why is the pet that sits by the dinner table as we consume other kinds of meat never for eating? What does it mean to wear fake fur? Why are animals such a constant presence in childrens literature and films? Drawing examples from literature, film, science, advertising, fashion, and philosophy, Animal argues that we cant think about animals without thinking about ourselves, challenging a number of assumptions and making us reconsider a wide range of ethical issues. /EricaFudge 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/This is a timely overview of the ways in which we live with animals, and assesses the many paradoxes of our relationships with them. 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?