Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets
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"(Tuan) does a masterful job exploring the condescending human treatment of animals as 'playthings' that exist only for our entertainment. He charts the malevolent history of male domination over women and children and the sad chronicle of slaves, dwarfs and other 'freaks' treated as human appliances or toys. This provocative study of power in the world of pleasure, play and art is a tour de force." -Cultural Information Service "A brilliant book that will appeal to a wide audience. The volume provides excellent material for school and college seminar debates on humankind's place in nature and attitudes toward other living things. . . . (A) penetrating analysis. . . . Readable at all levels."-Choice
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300032226
ISBN13:9780300032222
Release Date:September 1984
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
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An excellent piece on the theory of domination
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This book was recommended to me by a history professor at the school I currently attend. He introduced this piece as a work that he enjoys using in his environmental history class. At the surface level, this work gives an excellent examination of the dominance of the human subject within its environment. The writing is very clear and often playful and clever. But there is another trend within this book that makes it personally very interesting to my studies, and that is an examination concerning the mechanisms and structures of domination as that which is something fundamentally other than power. Thus in many ways this works seems to complement the theoretical framework established by Foucault in his studies on power. I highly recommend this book to any reader interested in human relationships with the world or anyone interested in the environment and the human position therein.
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