The foundational text for the nascent field of vegan studies
Laura Wright is head of the English Department at Western CarolinaUniversity. Her books include Wilderness into Civilized Shapes:Reading the Postcolonial Environment (Georgia).
Combining personal narratives and gender studies with ecofeminism
and pop culture, The Vegan Studies Project offers a brilliant
analysis of the impact of vegans and veganism on America's cultural
landscape. Laura Wright's argument for a new field of vegan studies
rings true, and this book will be the foundational text.-- "Hal
Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's
So Hard to Think Straight about Animals"
Studies like Laura Wright's--more than anything else--show how the
vegan and vegetarian label and identity are a millstone and a
barrier that hinders wider society's willingness to engage
seriously with the rights and wrongs of producing, killing, and
eating so many animals. If our strategy is to lessen the harm
wreaked on the animals with which humans share this planet, perhaps
the strongest lesson we can draw from this work is to step aside
from the vegan and vegetarian identity.-- "Tristram Stuart, author
of The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism
from 1600 to Modern Times and Waste: Uncovering the Global Food
Scandal"
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