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Abstract
The title of this essay points to two sets of interrelated diffi culties.1 Those in the fi rst set arise chronically from our individual psychologically complex and often ambivalent relations to animals. The second set refl ects the intellectually and ideologically crisscrossed connections among the various discourses currently concerned with those relations, including the movement for animal rights, ecological ethics, posthumanist theory, and such fi elds as primatology and evolutionary psychology. I begin with some general observations on kin and kinds—that is, relations and classifi cations—and then turn to the increasingly complex play of claims and counterclaims regarding the so-called species barrier.
期刊介绍：
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies first appeared in 1989 at the moment of a critical encounter—a head-on collision, one might say—of theories of difference (primarily Continental) and the politics of diversity (primarily American). In the ensuing years, the journal has established a critical forum where the problematic of differences is explored in texts ranging from the literary and the visual to the political and social. differences highlights theoretical debates across the disciplines that address the ways concepts and categories of difference—notably but not exclusively gender—operate within culture.
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