Nonhuman animals "have for so long been entangled in our categories of difference and our insatiable drive for order" (94), Sunaura Taylor writes in her brilliant book Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. The book carefully traces the particular entanglement of animality and disability, so often pitted against each other in ableist and speciesist claims to rights or subject status for www.doorway.ru: Anson Koch-Rein. Drawing on her own experiences as a disabled person, a disability activist, and an animal advocate, author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply, and sometimes uncomfortably, about what divides the human from the animal, the disabled from the nondisabled—and what it might mean to break down those divisions, to claim the animal and the vulnerable in ourselves, in a process she calls “cripping Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. · Overview. American Book Award Winner. A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation—and the Brand: New Press, The.
Beasts of Burden suggests that issues of disability and animal justice-which have heretofore primarily been presented in opposition-are in fact - Rebecca Solnit "Sunaura Taylor has written an amazing book that acts both as an intervention into widely held beliefs about disability and animals. Sunaura Taylor is an artist and writer based in New York City and the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press). She has written for AlterNet, American Quarterly, BOMB, the Monthly Review, Qui Parle, and Yes! magazine and has contributed to the books. Short Overview For Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation Drawing on her own experiences as a disabled person, a disability activist, and an animal advocate, author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply, and sometimes uncomfortably, about what divides the human.
Sunaura Taylor's Beasts of Burden dives deep into the intersectional oppressions of the disability community and animals. The human/animal binary that is so ingrained within us contributes to forms of human oppression alongside animal oppression. Beasts of Burden, Animal and Disability Liberation, by Sunaura Taylor is a must read for anyone interested in the intersections between ableism and speciesism and disability studies and critical animal studies. This review of Beasts of Burden was originally published on Animal Liberation Currents, a platform with news and analysis for the international animal. "Sunaura Taylor has written an amazing book that acts both as an intervention into widely held beliefs about disability and animals and an invitation to reimagine ourselves. Her thoroughly original, brilliant narrative transformed my imagination." —Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat. About the Author.
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