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Feminist Animal Studies is an excellent new multidisciplinary collection of original research, capably edited by Cudworth, McKie, and Turgoose (all, De Montfort Univ., UK). Following the editors' introduction, the book's 13 chapters are organized into three sections: "Engaging Theory: Feminisms, Species Boundaries, and Intersections (part 1); "Practice: Doing Feminist Animal Studies" (part 2); and "Politics and Activism: Feminist Animal Studies as Praxis" (part 3). The contributors are established and emerging feminist scholars and scholar activists from Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Among the numerous cutting-edge issues they address are the feminist ethic of care; intersectionalities in interhuman and interspecies violence and domination; animal rights, animal welfare, and animal beingness; activist dilemmas of theory and practice; interspecies sexual violence; veganism; body politics; and animal sanctuaries. Feminist Animal Studies affirms the longstanding and continuing preeminence of feminist perspectives on multispecies relations. The collection is crucial reading for anyone interested in feminism and critical animal studies. It will be an engaging teaching tool for college courses in a variety of academic disciplines.Summing Up: Essential. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

This excellent collection of original work is the first text to examine the influence of gender in green criminology. It does so in a focused and systematic way. The editors, all scholars of criminology based at UK universities, are to be congratulated for their fine editorial work in organizing this book's innovative contents and seeing it through to publication. After a foreword by Ragnhild Sollund and the editors' introductory chapter, the following 14 chapters are divided into three parts: "Gendered Nature of Green Harms and Environmental Crimes," "Gendered Impacts and Victimisation," and "Resistance." The book's reach, if not quite global, examines the gendering of different types of green harm and victimization in relation to the intersecting variables of gender, race, class, species, and nation. The text opens up a number of new areas of green study, including gender and the climate crisis, men and masculinities, the illegal wildlife trade, Indigenous victimization, queer(ing) green criminology, vegan feminism, green cultural criminology, the waste industry, and experiences of environmental harm. This is a path-breaking and much overdue addition to green criminology.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

Green criminologists Long (Oklahoma State Univ.), Lynch (Univ. of South Florida), and Stretesky (Northumbria Univ., UK) have on their own and jointly over three decades authored and edited numerous books on environmental harms and socioeconomic inequality, including the groundbreaking The Treadmill of Crime (CH, Mar'14, 51-3916). In this collection, they have very capably solicited and edited a mass of original, cutting-edge research intended to demonstrate the numerous intersections between inequalities and environmental harms. The book's 32 chapters, which are of uniformly high quality and written by both established and emerging scholars, are efficiently organized into nine parts covering theoretical traditions, rights, race/ethnicity, gender, the economy, the state, climate, natural resources, and food insecurity. This reviewer would have liked more than the cursory attention that is paid here to the current environmental/inequality issues associated with water, seas, and oceans; harms to flora; and the colonization of outer space. Nevertheless, in its length and global coverage, this handbook is a monumental achievement. Those working in the multidisciplinary field of environmental studies will find it an invaluable research and teaching tool. It is necessary reading.Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.