Description
To answer that question, Impersonating Animals evaluates the rhetoric of animal rights activists Steven Wise and Gary Francione, as well as the Earth jurisprudence paradigm. Deploying a critical ecofeminist stance sensitive to the interweaving of ideas about race, gender, class, sexuality, ability, and species, author S. Marek Muller places animal rights rhetoric in the context of discourses in which some humans have been deemed more animal than others and some animals have been deemed more human than others.
In bringing rhetoric and animal studies together, she shows that how we communicate about non-human beings necessarily affects relationships across species boundaries and among people. This book also highlights how animal studies scholars and activists can and should use ideological rhetorical criticism to investigate the implications of their tactics and strategies, emphasizing a critical vegan rhetoric as the best means of achieving liberation for human and nonhuman animals alike.
About the Author
S. Marek Muller is an Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida Atlantic University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781611863666
Author S. Marek Muller
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Michigan State University Press
Publisher Michigan State University Press
Weight(grams) 325g