Animal Disorders
Animal disorders— those erratic, contradictory, irrational relationships that humans have with their nonhuman compatriots— abound in contemporary U.S. culture. In a series of personal essays, Deborah Thompson relates her own complicity in some of these disordered approaches to nonhuman animals, including such practices as pet-keeping, animal hoarding, animal sacrifice (both...
Animal disorders— those erratic, contradictory, irrational relationships that humans have with their nonhuman compatriots— abound in contemporary U.S. culture. In a series of personal essays, Deborah Thompson relates her own complicity in some of these disordered approaches to nonhuman animals, including such practices as pet-keeping, animal hoarding, animal sacrifice (both...
