Disability and Animality

Stephanie Jenkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University.Kelly Struthers Montford is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Chloë Taylor is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta.

• Introduction; Part I: Intersections of Ableism and Speciesism; 1. Animal Crips; 2. Productive Bodies: How Neoliberalism Makes and Unmakes Disability in Human and Non-human Animals; 3. Zoos, Circuses and Freak Shows: A Cross-Movement Analysis; 4. Disability and the Ahuman: A Story about a Dog, a Duck, and the Woman who Cared for Them; Part II: Thinking Animality and Disability together in Political and Moral Theory; 5. Against Performance Criteria; 6. Service Dogs: Between Animal Studies and Disability Studies; 7. Veganism as Universal Design: Accommodation and Inclusion in Law and Social Justice Praxis; Part III: Neurodiversity and Critical Animal Studies; 8. Lost in Translation: Temple Grandin, Humane Meat, and The Myth of Consent; 9. Disrupting Temple Grandin: Resisting a ‘Humane’ Face for Autistic and Animal Oppression; 10. Cripping Mad Cow Disease; Part IV: Melancholy, Madness, and Misfits; 11. Vegan Madness: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian; 12. ‘There, there’: Disability, Animality, and the Allegory of Elizabeth Costello; 13. Of Gimps, Gastropods and Grief: Feminist New Materialist Reflections on Elizabeth Tova Bailey’s The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating.