Susan Squier explores the close association between humans and poultry, from the chicken's domestication to the present day. How are chickens bought, raised, bred, slaughtered, and sold, and how is this process hidden from our view - and why? Who benefits? What are the effects on our health? And what are the politics and ethics of our relationship with poultry? Squier shows what practices, meanings, and experiences this avian relationship has given rise to since the nineteenth century.
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Höhe: 226 mm
Breite: 151 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-0-8135-5421-1 (9780813554211)
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SUSAN M. SQUIER is the Julia Gregg Brill Professor of Women’s Studies and English at Penn State University and author of eight books, including Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology (Rutgers University Press), Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine, and Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City. Her research takes her from her own backyard where she raises chickens to scholarly trips throughout the United States and Europe.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Chickens?
1. Augury
2. Biology
3. Culture
4. Disability
5. Epidemic
6. Fellow-Feeling
7. Gender
8. Hybridity
9. Inauguration
Conclusion: Zen of the Hen
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About the Author
