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OverviewRenowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of bestiality Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for a practice that is generally regarded as abhorrent, it is remarkable how many books, films, plays, paintings, and photographs depict the subject. So, what does loving animals mean? In this book the renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of sex between humans and animals. Bourke looks at the changing meanings of 'bestiality' and 'zoophilia,' assesses the psychiatric and sexual aspects, and she concludes by delineating an ethics of animal loving. 'An important and thought-provoking book...Bourke's deft yet bold handling of this topic opens a vast and ethically freighted vista.' - Dr Louise Hide, Birkbeck, University of London Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joanna BourkePublisher: Reaktion Books Imprint: Reaktion Books ISBN: 9781789143102ISBN 10: 1789143101 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 12 October 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThis bold and imaginative book is thoughtful and--inevitably--provocative. With characteristic compassion and insight, Bourke undertakes a tour de force of historical and cultural attitudes towards human-animal relations to guide us through serious ethical and political questions concerning sexuality, power, and consent. --Julie-Marie Strange, Durham University Bourke's post-anthropocentric approach to human-animal love and lust is a remarkable and much-needed contribution to both queer studies and animal studies. She offers a critical and thorough analysis of the joys, hopes, and dangers of intimacy with the most vulnerable of all lovers--animals. --Monika Bakke, Philosophy Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland) In this courageous book, Bourke combines scholarship and clear prose to tackle head-on one of our most stigmatized taboos--sexual relations between humans and nonhumans. In doing so, she provides an illuminating perspective on a subject too often swept under the rug. Even if so-called zoophilia were a rare aberration, it ought to be addressed. That it is far more widespread than commonly believed justifies the need for thorough, contemporary examination. --Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows and Super Fly This bold and imaginative book is thoughtful and--inevitably--provocative. With characteristic compassion and insight, Bourke undertakes a tour de force of historical and cultural attitudes towards human-animal relations to guide us through serious ethical and political questions concerning sexuality, power, and consent. --Julie-Marie Strange, Durham University Bourke believes society should take a more nuanced approach to the matter. In her new book, Loving Animals, she points out that studies suggesting a link between bestiality and psychosis should be treated with caution due to sampling bias, because they were conducted on people already within the penal system, rather than a cross-section of the population. The sexually frustrated young farm-hand who interferes with one of his mares shouldn't necessarily occupy the same taxonomic box as the bona fide sex pest; his indiscretion is, in the words of the psychiatrist Philip Q. Roche, an 'adaptive expedient of bucolic loneliness'--a matter of circumstance rather than proclivity; contingent rather than pathological. -- Times Literary Supplement Author InformationJoanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and Global Innovations Chair at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of many books, including An Intimate History of Killing (1999), Fear: A Cultural History (2005), The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers (2014) and Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-play Invade our Lives (2014). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |