Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction

Having roots as a specialized philosophical movement at Oxford University in the early 1970s, critical animal studies is not taking shape as a wide-open, mutlidisciplinary endeavor through which scholars across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, and others, are joining together to address issues related to today's unprecedented subjection of animals.

Introducing this field, McCance describes the wide range of analysis and approaches respresented, looking at much-debated practices such as industrialized or 'factory' farming of animals and much more.