Abolitionism

Dr. Wrenn’s full list of essays is available here.

A History of The Vegan Society

Are Vegans too Open to Free-Riders?

Animal Abolitionism, a 19th Century Holdover

Can a Meat Tax Advance Animal Rights?

Can Flexitarianism Facilitate a Vegan World? Research Suggests Another Agenda

If You Care about Animals, In-Vitro Meat is Not the Answer

Is It Ethical to Keep Pets?

Medicalizing Animal Rights

On Moral Relativism and Animal Liberation

Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits

PETA & Papa John’s Team Up Against Animals

Peter Singer and the Charity of Western Imperialism

Rebuilding and Reusing Rescue Dogs

Solving Moral Conflicts in a Non-Vegan World

The EU Ban on Cosmetic Testing and the Problem with Single-Issue Campaigns

The Politics of the Pure Vegan Myth

Veganism “At All Costs” Hurts Animals

What Are You Doing to Help Animals Right NOW?

What is Post-Speciesism?

What’s Wrong with “Carnism”?

When White Makes Right: Racism, Neo-Colonialism, and Single-Issue Campaigns

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Factionalism in Animal Rights

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Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).

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