Abstract
These are the words of prominent African-American feminist Alice Walker, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Color Purple (1982). They appeared almost 20 years ago in her foreword to Marjorie Spiegel’s The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery (1996: 14). Walker’s declaration, which speaks to the focus and flavour of this special issue, was made around the time that a new multiand interdisciplinary field of inquiry was emerging. Human-Animal Studies (HAS), also called Animal Studies or Anthrozoology, draws upon a wide range of disciplinary formations: sociology, philosophy and history; studies of literature, the visual arts, cinema and popular culture; biobehavioural biology; science, technology, and health studies; gender and cultural studies; and of course psychology. What unites HAS work from all these disciplines is a determination to find new ways of thinking about animals and about human-animal relationships. Many lines of inquiry are pursued by HAS researchers. These include but are not limited to:
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