Catch and Release

Lisa Jean Moore is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is the author of Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid, Catch & Release: The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab, Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification and the Will to Change Nature as well as the co-author of Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility and Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee. She is also co-editor of The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings.

"Moore's book encourages people to take more seriously the humble horseshoe crab, whose blood flows in all of us, whether we know it or do not… Her book serves as an example of culture lag—most people do not pay attention to horseshoe crabs, but Moore shows readers the myriad, problematic ways that humans are implicated in these animals' lives, who are also central to our lives. Readers will think deeply about issues that many may not have even known existed… Catch and Release could also be assigned in gender and sociology of science classes" - Qualitative Sociology "Catch and Release is an incisive indictment of modern humanity's arrogance and ignorance and at the same time a celebration of a species, the horseshoe crabs, who despite their intelligence and power have refused to do to us what we have done to them." - G.A. Bradshaw,Author of Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are "This inspired account of our often surprising connections to crab worlds confirms Lisa Jean Moore's place as one of the most original and powerful sociologists writing today. Her beautifully illustrated book elegantly and poignantly interweaves rigorous observation with creative theoretical analysis, personal memoir, and political critique. A must-read about one of the most ancient creatures on our shores." - Sarah Franklin,Author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship