Beasts of Burden

<div><B><b>2018 American Book Award Winner</b><br><br>A beautifully written deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation-and the debut of an important new social critic</B><BR><BR>How much of what we understand of ourselves as human depends on our physical and mental abilities-how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much of our definition of human depends on its difference from animal?<BR><BR>Drawing on her own experiences as a disabled person a disability activist and an animal advocate author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply and sometimes uncomfortably about what divides the human from the animal the disabled from the nondisabled-and what it might mean to break down those divisions to claim the animal and the vulnerable in ourselves in a process she calls cripping animal ethics.<BR><BR><I>Beasts of Burden</I> suggests that issues of disability and animal justice-which have heretofore primarily been presented in opposition-are in fact deeply entangled. Fusing philosophy memoir science and the radical truths these disciplines can bring-whether about factory farming disability oppression or our assumptions of human superiority over animals-Taylor draws attention to new worlds of experience and empathy that can open up important avenues of solidarity across species and ability. <I>Beasts of Burden</I> is a wonderfully engaging and elegantly written work both philosophical and personal by a brilliant new voice.<BR></div>