Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism
and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in
broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory farming,
product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well in zoos,
rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. The contributors to Animal
Subjects are scholars and writers from diverse perspectives whose work
calls into question the boundaries that divide the animal kingdom from
humanity, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical,
and ethical concerns between non-human animals and ourselves. The first
of its kind to feature the work of Canadian scholars and writers in this
emergent field, this collection aims to include the non-human-animal
question as part of the ethical purview of Cultural Studies and to
explore the question in interdisciplinary terms.