Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde

A Paradigm for Animal Liberation
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3423-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Critical Animal Studies

This interdisciplinary study fuses analysis of feminist literature and manifestos, radical political theory, critical vanguard studies, women’s performance art, and popular culture to argue for the animal liberation movement as successor to the liberationist visions of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, most especially the Surrealists. These vanguard groups are judiciously critiqued for their refusal to confront their own misogyny, a quandary that continues to plague animal activists, thereby disallowing for cohesion and full recognition of women’s value within a culturally marginalized cause.
This volume is of interest to anyone who is concerned about the continued—indeed, escalating—violence against nonhumans. More broadly, it will interest those seeking new pathways to challenge the dominant power constructions through which oppression of humans, nonhumans, and the environment thrives. Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde ultimately poses the animal liberation movement as having serious political and cultural implications for radical social change, destruction of hierarchy and for a world without shackles and cages, much as the Surrealists envisioned.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Helena Pedersen and Vasile Stanescu: Series Editor’s Introduction: What is “Critical” about Animal Studies? From the Animal “Question” to the Animal “Condition”
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rooting for the Avant-Garde
Avant-Garde Women Writers and Destruction in the Flesh
Staring Back in the Flesh: Avant-Garde Performance as an ALM Paradigm
Convulsive Beauty, Infinite Spheres and Irrational Reasons: Reverie on a New Consciousness
Love and Laughter Now: Plucking at Stems or Uprooting Oppression?
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kim Socha is an animal activist and sits on the board of the Animal Rights Coalition in Minneapolis, MN. Holding a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism, she works as a composition and literature instructor with publications in the areas of surrealism, Latino literature and pedagogy.