Overview
- Explores issues of power, representation, love and abuse.
- Accessibly written, containing personal stories from abuse victims, allowing readers to fully empathise with the issues raised.
- The first book to document the deep connections between humans and animals in violent situations.
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Social Problems (PSASP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book, Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser consider how we might better understand human-animal companionship in the context of domestic violence. The authors advocate an intersectional feminist understanding, drawing on a variety of data from numerous projects they have conducted with people, about their companion animals and links between domestic violence and animal abuse, arguing for a new understanding that enables animals to be constituted as victims of domestic violence in their own right. The chapters analyse the mutual, loving connections that can be formed across species, and in households where there is domestic violence. Companion Animals and Domestic Violence also speaks to the potentially soothing, healing and recovery oriented aspects of human-companion animal relationships before, during and after the violence, and will be of interest to various academic disciplines including social work, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, geography, as wellas to professionals working in domestic violence or animal welfare service provision.
Reviews
“‘Rescuing You, Rescuing Me is a comprehensive, honest, compassionate and respectful study of a difficult and disturbing subject,’ … .The book will inform various academic disciplines including social work, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, geography, as well as to professionals working in domestic violence or animal welfare service provision.” (Phys.org, April 04, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Heather Fraser is Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Companion Animals and Domestic Violence
Book Subtitle: Rescuing Me, Rescuing You
Authors: Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Social Problems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04125-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04124-3Published: 22 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04125-0Published: 03 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-4676
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4684
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 222
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Gender and Sexuality, Violence and Crime, Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics