Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice

Cristina Hanganu-Bresch is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, USA. Her research on the rhetoric of psychiatry and scientific communication has appeared, among others, in Written Communication, Literature and Medicine, and Medical Humanities, and several edited collections. She co-authored Diagnosing Madness (2019) and Effective Scientific Writing (2020). Kristin Kondrlik is an Assistant Professor of English specializing in Health Communication at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her research focuses on wellness movements in historical and contemporary medical journals. Her scholarship has appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920, and Poroi: Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry.

• Part I: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Vegetarianism.- Chapter 1. State of Meatlessness: Voluntary and involuntary vetegarianism in early twentieth century Italy. Carol Helstolsy.- Chapter 2. Taking an Anti-Sacrificial Stance: The Essentializing Rhetoric and Affective Nature of Meat Consumption in Islam. Nora Abdul-Aziz, Daniella Fedak-Lengel, and Lara Martin Lengel.- Chapter 3. Because We Care: Veganism and Politics in Israel. Sharon Avital.- Chapter 4. Veg(etari)anism in Serbia: Attack on Traditional Values. Mirjana Uzelac.- Chapter 5. Ancient Text, Modern Context: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and the Twenty-First Century Veg(etari)an. Sharon Lauricella.- Part II: Veg(etari)anism as Embodied Practice.- Chapter 6. The Accidental Vegetarian: Object-Oriented Ontology at the Intersection of Alpha-Gal Mammalian Meat Allergy. Elizabeth Baddour.- Chapter 7. "You Are What You Eat": Oprah, Amarillo, and Food Politics. Callie Kostelich and Heidi Hakimi-Hood.- Chapter 8. Queer Hunger: Human and Animal Bodies in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood. Molly Mann.- Part III: Eco vs Ego: The transformative potential of veg(etari)anism.- Chapter 9. Laying Down with the Lamb: Abolitionist Veganism, the Rhetoric of Human Exceptionalism, and the End of Creation. David Stubblefield and Dynestee Fields.- Chapter 10. Feeling Bad? Veganism, Climate Change, and the Rhetoric of Cowspiracy. Alexa Weik von Mossner.- Chapter 11. Constituting Vegetarian Audiences: Orchestrations of Ecogenctric, Anthropocentric, Ecocentric Exigencies in Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals. Oren Abeles and Emma Lozon.- Chapter 12. Beyond Diet: Veganism as Liberatory Praxis. Tara Roeder.