... of the simultaneously personalizing and impersonalizing fields of sociality and sexuality is registered and negotiated. In order to secure a differently queer critical purchase on the couple formation, the abject figures of animal studies and queer studies — the pet and the couple — are thought unphobically together...

...Colin Carman There is a present need in contemporary queer theory to join forces with ecological criticism, specifically with the burgeoning field of animal studies, to critically assess the controversial life and writings of self-proclaimed “eco-warrior” Timothy Treadwell (1957 – 2003...

... link Dan Savage's “It Gets Better” project and related discussions about the recent spate of queer suicides to broader social justice issues about disability as well as theoretical concerns in animal studies and posthumanist studies. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Coda: The Cost...

... 1970s Italian feminism to Daoist philosophy to early psychoanalytic theories of the anus, we take a step back from the post-structural logic that has animated queer studies since its inception, developing a structuralist methodology that insists on the ontological and ethical significance...

... of growing concerns about how to account for agency beyond identity forms. Attempts to define gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation through sci- entific animal studies influence as much as they reflect confusion about what queer sexuality engenders. Homosexual...

... OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES atmospheric parasite in neoliberal climate discourse. Michel Serres puts the point about scale this way: “The human parasite is of another order relative to that of the animal parasite: the latter is one, the former a set; the latter is time...

...), Precarious Life (2004), and most recently, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009). Mel Y. Chen is assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, with research interests in feminist, critical race and queer theory, environmental and animal studies...

... steer clear of yet another loop of “vulgar constructionism”?19 To quote an anony- mous grad student, the turn to animal studies at times reflects a desire for an “Other that doesn’t talk back.” Meanwhile, as Zakiyyah Jackson shows, theories of posthumanism and ani...

.... It is in this context that medieval attempts at non/humanism might help inform our recent efforts to displace the hegemony of the human subject in contemporary culture. Scholarship in queer/animal studies, for instance, has explored how the multiplicities of animal sex might yield new ways...

... animals is seldom, if ever, innocent; instead it is shaped by conscious and uncon- GLQ 6:2 pp. 151–193 Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press 152 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES scious investments in making claims about human life. This phenomenon is most pro- nounced...

...-­posthumanism, animal studies, environmental studies and ecocriti- cism, and the new materialisms.30 These widely disparate domains all share a conviction that the “human” (at least as traditionally conceived) has unjustly domi- nated and unduly limited the horizon of critical thought, even in the work...

... of the animal and the racial, the biological and the historical, into tight relation with each other.2 The field is broad indeed, but before we gesture toward the plethora of texts that could mark important intersecting trajectories from food, critical race, or sexuality studies, we...

... documenting their breed and/or lineage. Instead, they are identified INHUMAN INTIMACIES AND QUEER KINSHIPS IN AN ANIMAL SHELTER 345 by their looks. And, as several recent studies comparing visual and DNA-­based identification of dog breeds have shown, there is an extremely high rate...

... to the transnational, the global, the geopolitical, the regional, was seen as an intervention, an epistemic dike that would stem the tide of US-funded queer takeovers. Alongside the rise of queer of color critique and many other theoretical kin in indigenous, disability, animal studies, and more, there was a sense...

... various studies having to do with the sexual behavior of animals. What do you take to he the relevance of these studies to your project? RP: Ambiguous. Such studies can be used for a political argument. Critics say, bbHomosexuality is unnatural; it doesn’t exist in nature; animals don’t do...

.... Joan Roughgarden’s expansive study works through webs of associations, begin- ning with animal physiologies and behaviors, moving on to human embryogenesis and developmental psychology, and ending with cultural and historical examples of gender and sexual variation, which she...

.... Joan Roughgarden’s expansive study works through webs of associations, begin- ning with animal physiologies and behaviors, moving on to human embryogenesis and developmental psychology, and ending with cultural and historical examples of gender and sexual variation, which she...

.... Joan Roughgarden’s expansive study works through webs of associations, begin- ning with animal physiologies and behaviors, moving on to human embryogenesis and developmental psychology, and ending with cultural and historical examples of gender and sexual variation, which she...

.... Joan Roughgarden’s expansive study works through webs of associations, begin- ning with animal physiologies and behaviors, moving on to human embryogenesis and developmental psychology, and ending with cultural and historical examples of gender and sexual variation, which she...

..., and Sexuality in Nature and People Joan Roughgarden Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 474 pp. Joan Roughgarden’s expansive study works through webs of associations, begin- ning with animal physiologies and behaviors, moving on to human embryogenesis...