Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World

Contributors

301 Lesli Bisgould has worked as a lawyer in Ontario since 1992. She practised civil litigation at a Toronto boutique firm before establishing her own practice in animal rights law in 1995. Bisgould was Canada’s only animal rights lawyer for ten years. Currently she is Legal Aid Ontario’s Barrister in Residence, assisting legal clinics in their work on behalf of Ontario’s poorest residents. Jodey Castricano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, where she teaches critical theory and Cultural Studies. Her interests lie in posthumanism and animal studies, and she has also published on the philosopher Jacques Derrida and is working on an sshrc-supported book-length study, under contract with the University of Wales Press, on the influence of 19th-century spiritualism on the rise and practice of psychoanalysis. Recently she was appointed as a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics in the UK. Paola Cavalieri, whose research interests include ethics, bioethics and political philosophy, is the editor of the international philosophy journal Etica & Animali. She is the co-editor, with Peter Singer, of The Great Ape Project (London: Fourth Estate, 1993) and the author of The Animal Question (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). Biologist Anne Innis Dagg, PhD, teaches in the Independent Studies program of the University of Waterloo. Her academic research artiContributors cles and books have focused on mammals (especially giraffe and camels), feminism (particularly as it affects academic women), evolutionary psychology and, most recently, animal rights. Her most recent publications include The Feminine Gaze, Love of Shopping Is Not a Gene and Pursuing Giraffe. Michael Allen Fox is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Queen’s University , and Adjunct Professor of Social Science, University of New England (Australia). He has written, lectured and consulted extensively on animal ethics issues and is the author of The Case for Animal Experimentation , Deep Vegetarianism and The Accessible Hegel. His current writing project is A Student’s Guide to Existentialism. He lives in Armidale , New South Wales, Australia. Donna Haraway earned a PhD from the Biology Department at Yale in 1972 for an interdisciplinary dissertation on the functions of metaphor in shaping research in developmental biology in the twentieth century. She is now professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Program at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her many publications include The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science and the highly influential Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Dawne McCance is Professor and Head, Department of Religion, University of Manitoba, and Editor of Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature. Her book, Medusa’s Ear: University foundings from Kant to Chora L (2004), approaches the conflation of “animal” and “woman” (deaf and mute female) in founding texts on the modern research university. She is currently extending this study in a booklength project supported by sshrc, A Little History of Hearing. Lesley McLean has recently completed her PhD at the University of New England, Armidale (Australia). Her thesis is entitled “How Should One Live with Nonhuman Animals? An examination of the ways three philosophers have answered this question.” Her research interests centre on notions of moral and imaginative attention with respect to nonhuman animals. Rod Preece is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo , Ontario, and is the author of numerous volumes, including Animals 302 contributors and Nature: Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities (1999), Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb: A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals (2002) and Brute Souls, Happy Beasts and Evolution: The Historical Status of Animals (2005). Barbara K. Seeber is an Associate Professor of English at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, specializing in eighteenth- and earlynineteenth -century literature. She is the author of General Consent in Jane Austen: A Study of Dialogism (2000). John Sorenson is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University. His books include Culture of Prejudice; Ghosts and Shadows; Imaging Ethiopia and Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa. He is currently working on a study of various “representations of animals ” supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. David Sztybel completed his doctorate at the University of Toronto, Ontario, and also an Advisory Research Committee Post-Doctoral Fellowship , centring on the ethics of vivisection...