Queer Entanglements
Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Animal Companionship

This book explores LGBQTNB people's relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

Damien W. Riggs (Author), Shoshana Rosenberg (Author), Heather Fraser (Author), Nik Taylor (Author)

9781108488860, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 July 2021

238 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.51 kg

'This work invites further exploration of the significance of these alternative forms of kinship … Recommended.' C. E. Rasmussen, Choice

Queer Entanglements provides the first comprehensive account of the intersections of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, and non-binary people's lives with the lives of animals. Exploring diverse topics such as domestic violence, grief following the loss of an animal, veganism, cruelty-free makeup products, Pride events, and community activism, the book offers a theoretical and empirical basis for understanding the contexts that bring together human and animal lives. By using real-world examples, it provides a lively and engaging view of what it means to think about the connections between animal and human lives, even when human experiences operate at the expense of animal wellbeing. This critical, intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspective on human-animal relations will be of interest to scholars and students in human-animal studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and cultural and gender studies.

1. Menageries, Enmeshment, and Irreducibility
2. Love, Loss, and Grief
3. Violence, Cruelty, and Rescue
4. Sameness, Difference, and Intercorporeality
5. Rainbows, Flags, and Bridges
6. Consumption, Consumerism, and Kink
7. Voice, Responsibility, and Liberation
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Domestic animals & pets [WNG], Health psychology [MBNH9], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Psychology of gender [JMG], Sociology: family & relationships [JHBK]