Feminist Animal Studies (ePub)

Erika Cudworth works in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her research interests include complexity theory, gender and human relations with nonhuman animals, particularly theoretical and political challenges to exclusive humanism. She is the author of Environment and Society (2003), Developing Ecofeminist Theory (2005) and Social Lives with Other Animals (2011); coauthor of The Modern State (2007); Posthuman International Relations (2011) and The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism (2018); and co-editor of Technology, Society and Inequality (2013) and Anarchism and Animal Liberation (2015). Erika's current projects are a book on people's relations with dog companions and a critical reappraisal of the legacy of social theory for posthumanist scholarship.

Ruth E. McKie works in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her research interests include climate change counter movement delay and obstruction, environmental social movements, climate change and inequality with a specific focus on Latin America and pet abuse in coercive controlling relationships. Ruth's current projects are a book on the global history of the Climate Change Counter Movement, the development of climate delay and obstruction studies in the Global South and insurance discrimination as it relates to pet abuse in domestic violence.

Di Turgoose works in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Di is a subject lead for Domestic Violence and Abuse in the Community and Criminal Justice Division at DMU. Di also researches and lectures in gender studies, victimology and in feminist pedagogy on a range of both taught traditional and professional-based programmes, including criminology, criminal investigation, psychology, probation, social work and teacher training. Di is the Pracademics in Criminal Justice Network