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Joanna
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Loving Animals: On bestial*ty, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
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London
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Reaktion Books
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2020
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191
. £18.00. Hdbk. ISBN 978-1-7891-4310-2.
Erica Fudge University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, UK erica.fudge@strath.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
Social History of Medicine, Volume 35, Issue 3, August 2022, Pages 1038–1039, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab031
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12 March 2021
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Erica Fudge, Joanna Bourke, Loving Animals: On bestial*ty, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love, Social History of Medicine, Volume 35, Issue 3, August 2022, Pages 1038–1039, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab031
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The conclusions of this book can be guessed by the end of its introduction by anyone with a knowledge of some basic ideas in ‘post-humanist discourse’ as it relates to human–animal relations. Indeed, Joanna Bourke’s book is what might be called an extended syllogism: if, but, so. If post-humanist ideas present a challenge to ‘human exceptionalism and the idea that culture is an entirely human preserve’ (p. 30), and if we, therefore, refuse to see our (human) selves as special, separate, distinct, and if we recognise we are, like animals, embodied beings, what is to say sexual encounters between species are unacceptable? It seems by page 30 that Bourke is going to present post-humanists with a quandary. If, but, so: how could you say no?
What follows (the ‘but’ of the syllogism) are four chapters that explore, as she puts it, ‘the changing historical landscape of bestial*ty and zoophilia, including their theological, psychiatric, philosophical and “sexual identity” phases’ (p. 120). Chapter 1 offers an interesting overview of various political discussions that took place in state legislatures across the United States in the early twenty-first century, as it came to be recognised that the decriminalisation of hom*osexuality had also led to the accidental decriminalising of bestial*ty.
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