Sexing the Animal in a Post-Humanist World: A Critical Feminist Approach
This pioneering collection of essays unpacks the complex discursive and embodied relationships between humans and animals, contributing to a more informed understanding of both human-animal relations and the role of language in social processes. Focusing on the example of shark-human interactions, the book draws on forms of analysis from multimodality and critical discourse studies to examine the representations of this relationship across visual arts, popular media, and the natural sciences, each viewed through a critical feminist lens. The combined effect highlights the significance of the emergent turn to post-humanism in applied linguistics and its role in fostering more engaged discussions around broader contemporary social issues, including environmental degradation and climate change on the one hand, and resurgent feminism and challenges to normative heterosexuality on the other. Paving the way for new forms of writing and language for a post-anthropocentric age, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars in applied linguistics, gender studies, sociolinguistics, human-animal studies, and environmental humanities.

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Sexing the Animal in a Post-Humanist World: A Critical Feminist Approach
This pioneering collection of essays unpacks the complex discursive and embodied relationships between humans and animals, contributing to a more informed understanding of both human-animal relations and the role of language in social processes. Focusing on the example of shark-human interactions, the book draws on forms of analysis from multimodality and critical discourse studies to examine the representations of this relationship across visual arts, popular media, and the natural sciences, each viewed through a critical feminist lens. The combined effect highlights the significance of the emergent turn to post-humanism in applied linguistics and its role in fostering more engaged discussions around broader contemporary social issues, including environmental degradation and climate change on the one hand, and resurgent feminism and challenges to normative heterosexuality on the other. Paving the way for new forms of writing and language for a post-anthropocentric age, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars in applied linguistics, gender studies, sociolinguistics, human-animal studies, and environmental humanities.

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Sexing the Animal in a Post-Humanist World: A Critical Feminist Approach

Sexing the Animal in a Post-Humanist World: A Critical Feminist Approach

by Roslyn Appleby
Sexing the Animal in a Post-Humanist World: A Critical Feminist Approach
Sexing the Animal in a Post-Humanist World: A Critical Feminist Approach

Sexing the Animal in a Post-Humanist World: A Critical Feminist Approach

by Roslyn Appleby

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This pioneering collection of essays unpacks the complex discursive and embodied relationships between humans and animals, contributing to a more informed understanding of both human-animal relations and the role of language in social processes. Focusing on the example of shark-human interactions, the book draws on forms of analysis from multimodality and critical discourse studies to examine the representations of this relationship across visual arts, popular media, and the natural sciences, each viewed through a critical feminist lens. The combined effect highlights the significance of the emergent turn to post-humanism in applied linguistics and its role in fostering more engaged discussions around broader contemporary social issues, including environmental degradation and climate change on the one hand, and resurgent feminism and challenges to normative heterosexuality on the other. Paving the way for new forms of writing and language for a post-anthropocentric age, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars in applied linguistics, gender studies, sociolinguistics, human-animal studies, and environmental humanities.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367728823
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/18/2020
Pages: 116
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Roslyn Appleby is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of gender and sexuality and she is the author of Men and Masculinities in Global English Language Teaching (Palgrave Macmillan), and ELT, Gender and International Development (Multilingual Matters).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Posthumanism and heteroanimality

2. Sharks and Unloved Others: Why sharks?

3. Shark Arts: Sea monsters, sirens, selkies, and sexualities

4. Surfing with SharkS: Australian frontier masculinity

5. Sharks in Science: Explaining sexuality, naturally

6. Fantasy Sharks: Vagina dentate

7. Predation: Baits, cages and cannibals

8. Conclusion

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