The animals reader : the essential classic and contemporary writings / edited by Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald.

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, 2014.

xvi, 386 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm

First published in 2007 by Berg.

Prologue: Animals / by Randy Malamud -- Editorial introduction / by Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerals -- 1. Animals as philosophical and ethical subjects -- The history of animals / Aristotle -- Principles of morals and legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- In defense of slavery / Marjorie Spiegel -- Animal liberation or animal rights? / Peter Singer -- The rights of humans and other animals / Tom Regan -- The moral status of animals / Martha Nussbaum -- Becoming-animal / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- 2. Animals as reflexive thinkers -- An apology for Raymond Sebond / Michel de Montaigne -- From the Letters of 1646 and 1649 / René Descartes -- Speaking for dogs / Clinton R. Sanders and Arnold Arluke -- Wild justice and fair play : cooperation, forgiveness, and morality in animals / Marc Bekoff -- Grief, sadness, and the bones of elephants / Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy -- Orangutan cultures and the evolution of material culture / Carel P. van Schaik ... [and 8 others] -- 3. Animals as domestic, "pets" and food -- The hunter-gatherer prehistory of human-animal interactions / Steven Mithen -- Animal planet / Harriet Ritvo -- Animal pets : cruelty and affection / Yi-Fu Tuan -- The eating of flesh / Plutarch -- Brave new farm? / Jim Mason and Mary Finelli -- The sexual politics of meat / Carol J. Adams -- The promotion of "meat" and its consequences / David Nibert -- 4. Animals as spectacle and sport -- Combats of elephants / Pliny the Elder -- On being human in the bullfight / Garry Marvin -- Dogfighting : symbolic expression and validation of masculinity / Rhonda Evans, DeAnn K. Gauthier, and Craig J. Forsyth -- Zoo spectatorship / Randy Malamud -- Hunting and humanity in western thought / Matt Cartmill -- 5. Animals as symbols -- Why look at animals? / John Berger -- The totemic illusion / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Animals as tradition / Boria Sax -- What is the postmodern animal? / Steve Baker -- The illumination of the animal kingdom : the role of light and electricity in animal representation / Jonathan Burt -- 6. Animals as scientific objects -- The brown dog riots of 1907 / Coral Lansbury -- Into the laboratory / Lynda Birke -- Hybrid geographies : rethinking the "human" in human geography / Sarah Whatmore -- Dolly's body : gender, genetics, and the new genetic capital / Sarah Franklin -- Cyborgs to companion species : reconfiguring kinship in technoscience / Donna Haraway.

Includes bibliographical references and index.