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Cat Lady, Cats, Companion Species, Dogs, Doris Lessing, J.M. Coetzee, Jane Campbell, Literature and Philosophy, Timothy Morton
This is the second in a series of three posts in which I examine the figure of the cat lady. In this post, I read J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Old Woman and the Cats’ and examine the gendering of solidarity between species in inter-species companionship, and how the rejection of the masculine becomes the space and mode of solidarity with non-humans.
Domesticating Dogs and the Ethics of Companionship
03 Friday Nov 2017
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Anna E. Charlton, Companion Species, Dogs, Donna Haraway, Gary L. Francione, Pets, Sarah Marshall-Pescini
Some reflections on the ethics of domesticating and caring for dogs.