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Through historical and current cultural abjection of the ""animal"" and the ""bad queer,"" Queer and Animal Provocations: Homonormativity, Animal Exploitation, and Sexual Violence provides insight into the relationship between queer people and animals to show how homonormative aspirations of ""good queers"" can unwittingly further entrench animal abuse. To uncover this connection, this book travels through notions of queer citizenship, animal justice, colonial constructs of the human, and queer movements for liberation. Jessica Ison explores encounters between the discourse of queer liberation and animal abjection, through the use of advertisements, corporate sponsors, media articles, laws, activist movements, and lobbying efforts, to discover how the struggles for acceptable queer identity are entwined with entrenching animal exploitation. This book disentangles the exploitation of animals from queer liberation, arguing for scholars and activists to take action in future struggles through solidarity and mutual support within the abolition of cages and systems of injustice.

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9781666944754

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In this original, accessible, and engaging text, Jessica Ison places queer and animal liberation movements and theory side by side, asking critical questions about their entanglements, history, and potential horizons. Examining diverse contemporary topics such as commodification and consumerism, sexuality and the law, and the visibility of mourning, Queer and Animal Provocations offers an incisive exploration of the politics of queer sexuality and oppression amidst the context of mass scale human violence against animals. --Dinesh Wadiwel, The University of Sydney

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Jessica Ison is senior lecturer and Deputy Director of the Reducing Gender-Based Violence Research Group at La Trobe University.

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