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Alice’s Menagerie in Wonderland: Text and Image as a Collaborative Critique of Animal Display in Victorian London
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Is Artificially Selecting Animals For Consumption Ethical?
Mortal Bodies – An Approach to Representing Animals in Literature
The Dichotomy of Sight vs Touch: The Harm of the Primacy of Sight for Empathy
The Exotic Enthralls: Comparing Pre-modern Colonization with Present-day Exotic Pet Keeping
The Feral Child: Blurring the Boundary between the Human and the Animal
The Migration to Intersectional Leadership in the Animal Rights Movement
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Are We A Society Based on Equality If We Aren’t Considering Animal Rights As Equal To Human Rights?
Howling at the Boundaries: Werewolves and Anxiety about the Human-Animal Border in Early Modern Europe
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The Nonhuman Rights Project: Examining Today’s Most Prominent Legal Battle for Animal Rights & The Place of Law in Activism
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Politics of Animal Ethics: Becoming, Mediation and Animal Rights
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Deforestation and Poaching Consequences on Dwindling Populations of Lions (Panthera leo), Tigers (Panthera tigris), and Jaguars (Panthera onca)
The Ecological and Human-Centered Benefits of Wolf Reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park
The Question of Non-Human Animals in Sociology
What Does It Mean to be Human, and Not Animal? Examining Montaigne’s Literary Persuasiveness in “Man is No Better Than the Animals”
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Animals as Social Subjects: Toward Inclusive Social Interaction
The Farm Myth: Fantasy Farms, Factory Farming
The relationship between meat consumption and power in late medieval and early modern England
The ‘Other’ in the Context of Human Slavery and Genocide and Current Nonhuman Animal Industrial Systems
Volume 6, No. 1
Centering the Sloth in an Early Modern Map of Peru
Cultures of Interspecies Cetacean Groups
Pick a Pack: Animal Companionship and Shifting Identities in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun’
The Unseen Labor Force: Animal Agriculture Under Global Capitalism exploring the role of architecture and planning in the objectification of marginalized groups within the British dairy industry
‘All Animals Are Equal’: Animal Farm in the Anthropocene
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