While I certainly concede that domestication means dependency, likening the situation to women's liberation in society would mean, by extension, that we shouldn't study women's role in society and their contributions. Where would this leave women's studies?
The session "Learning from the Animals" is a session offered under the Environment and Technology section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Environmental sociology historically and presently leaves nonhumans out of an analysis of the environment. This session will be used to explore ways academics bring nonhumans into the conversation in the classroom - whether that conversation deals with the linkages of oppressions between humans and animals, the ethics of factory farming or animal experimentation, or the role of domestication. Lisa Anne ********************************************************************** Lisa Anne Zilney, Ph.D. Candidate University of Tennessee, Sociology, 901 McClung Tower Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0490; (W) 865-974-6021 Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever---Mahatma Gandhi Sometimes we use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them---Antonio Damasio **********************************************************************
