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| | Society&Animal Forum - Society & Animals Journal |
 | | Looking to animal defense as a “progressive, anti-racist possibility” and often explicitly referring to Walker’s journalism, Adams insists on the need to recognize, in speaking for animals, the interconnected, yet different, abuses in our culture of (among other groups) women, animals, and the environment, people of color or who are gay or lesbian (Adams, pp. |
 | | Lissie might be seen as a paragon of virtue, the descriptions in her mythological past-lives of an elemental connection between women- often fl women- and animals regarded as offering visions of a perfect past in which, were it possible to return to that past humanity might regain the community of animals described therein. |
 | | I argued that through her re-writing of the story of Genesis, Walker indicates that racism, sexism, and the abuse of animals are the contexts for human language as it exists in western culture, understood as equivalent to representation as “speaking about.” It is the possession of language that conventionally separates humans from animals. |
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