An Animal Manifesto Gender, Identity, and Vegan-Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan, Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995), p.3. 2. Neal Barnard, 'First Person Singular,' Washington Post (5 December 2004), p.W05, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp‐dyn/articles/A28550‐2004Dec2.html. 3. 'In an agony of pain and confusion, the animal struggles in frenzy, often mutilating themselves, dislocating joints, breaking their teeth, chewing their leg or paw – in an attempt to break free. If they succeed, the traumatized animal has scant hope for survival in the wild; death will come surely by infection, by starvation or by the animal's being an easy prey to their predators.' Information at http://www.banlegholdtraps.com/traps.html. 4. Barbara Noske, Beyond Boundaries: Humans and Animals (London: Black Rose Books, 1997), specifically Chapter 7, 'Meeting the Other: Towards An Anthropology of Animals'. 5. Gail F. Melson, Why the Wild Things Are: Animals in the Lives of Children (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2001), p.97. 6. I choose the stronger word 'murder' over the less emotive word 'death,' just as I chose the word 'corpse' rather than 'carcass' in Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals (New York: Continuum, 1994). If we acknowledge human animal‐nonhuman animal continuity then words that have been used to apply only to humans must be employed to refer to what happens to the other animals. In addition, I have been working on bringing back into print an eighteenth‐century vegetarian pamphlet that never entered the vegetarian canon. In it, the author refers to flesh eating as 'murdering animals'. See my 'Robert Morris and a lost eighteenth‐century vegetarian book: An Introduction to Morris's A Reasonable Plea for the Animal Creation,' forthcoming, Organization and Environment (December 2005). 7. Bruce Friedrich, personal correspondence, 7 September 2005. 8. See her discussion of the animal industrial complex and the alienated labor of female animals in, Beyond Boundaries, pp.22–39. 9. Carol J. Adams, The Pornography of Meat (New York: Continuum, 2003). 10. Jacques Derrida, 'The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)', trans. by David Wills, in Critical Inquiry 28:2 (Winter 2002), pp.367–418. 11. See the discussion in Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist‐Vegetarian Critical Theory (New York: Continuum, 1990, 2000), pp.125–26. 12. Jacques Derrida, 'The Animal That Therefore I Am', p.395. 13. Jacques Derrida, 'The Animal That Therefore I Am', p.395. 14. Jacques Derrida, 'The Animal That Therefore I Am', p.396. 15. Donna Haraway, 'A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist‐Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century' in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, (London: Free Association, 1991), pp.149–181; Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003), reviewed this issue. 16. Jacques Derrida, 'The Animal That Therefore I Am', p. 407. 17. Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto, p.51. 18. Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto, p.48. 19. Jacques Derrida, 'The Animal That Therefore I Am', p.395. 20. Vicki Hearne, 'What's Wrong with Animal Rights', Harpers (September 1991), pp.59–64. 21. Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto, p.54. 22. Jacques Derrida, 'The Animal That Therefore I Am', p.394. 23. Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto, p.24. 24. Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto, p.34, quoting Noske. 25. Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto, p.40. 26. Work in progress. 27. Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983). 28. Karen Davis, The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale (New York: Lantern, 2005), p.47.