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Feminism, Intersectionality, and Identity – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Feminism, Intersectionality, and Identity

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

Books

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Ireland’s First Colony. New York: SUNY Press.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11301441.

Wrenn, C. L.  2016.  A Rational Approach to Animal Rights:  Extensions in Abolitionist Theory.  London, UK:  Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1057/9781137434654.

Book Chapters

Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Sexism in Animal Activism: The Foie Gras Campaigns.” Pp. 563-576, in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals, C. Taylor (ed.). London: Routledge.

Wrenn, C. L. and L. M. Korimboccus. 2023. “Vegan Feminism Then and Now: Women’s Resistance to Legalised Speciesism across Three Waves of Activism.” Pp. 251-266, in Gendering Green Criminology, E. Milne, P. Davies, J. Heydon, Kay Peggs, and T. Wyatt (Eds.). Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Nonhuman Animal Rights.” Pp. 148-161, in Handbook of Inequality and the Environment, M. Long, M. Lynch, and P. Stretesky (Ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781800881136.

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Building a Vegan Feminist Network in the Professionalised Digital Age of Third-Wave Animal Activism.” Pp. 235-248, in Feminist Animal Studies, E. Cudworth and D. Turgoose (Eds.). London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003222620-18.

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Vegan Geographies in Ireland.” Pp. 394-406, in The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies, edited by L. Wright. London: Routledge.

Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “Toward a Vegan Feminist Theory of the State.” Pp. 201-230, in Animal Oppression and Capitalism, edited by D. Nibert. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press.

Wrenn, C. L. 2015. “Human Supremacy, Post-Speciesist Ideology, and the Case for Anti-Colonialist Veganism.” Pp. 55-70, in Animals in Human Society, edited by D. L. Moorehead.  Lanham, MD:  University Press of America/Hamilton Books.

Wrenn, C. L. 2015. “The Weight of Veganism.” Pp. 164-165, in The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror, edited by Laura Wright. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Animalizing Appalachia: A Critical Animal Studies Analysis of Early Sociological Surveys of Southern Appalachia.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 29 (2): 145–165. DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.02.

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Shocked or Satiated? Graphic Imagery and Persistent Commitment in Animal Rights Activism.” Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 7. Online first. DOI: 10.1163/2208522X-bja10045.

Wrenn, C. L. and A. Lizardi. 2020. “Older, Greener, and Wiser: Charting the Experiences of Older Women in the American Vegan Movement.Journal of Women & Aging 33 (6): 653-675. Online first. DOI: 10.1080/08952841.2020.1749501.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Atheism in the American Animal Rights Movement:
An Invisible Majority.”
 Environmental Values 28 (6): 715-739. DOI: 10.3197/096327119X15579936382509.

Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “Pussy Grabs Back. Bestialized Sexual Politics and the Intersectional Failure in the Protest Posters for the 2017 Women’s March.” Feminist Media Studies 19 (6): 803-821. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1465107.

Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “Trump Veganism: A Political Survey of American Vegans in the Era of Identity Politics.” Societies 7 (4): 32. DOI: 10.3390/soc7040032.

Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “Fat Vegan Politics: A Survey of Fat Vegan Activists’ Online Experiences with Social Movement Sizeism.” Fat Studies 6 (1): 90-102. DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2017.1242359.

Wrenn, C. L.  2017.  “Skeptics and the ‘White Stuff’:  Promotion of Cows’ Milk and Other Nonhuman Animal Products in the Skeptic Community as Normative Whiteness.”  Relations:  Beyond Anthropocentrism 5 (1): 73-81.

Wrenn, C. L. 2016. “Social Movement Prostitution: A Case Study in Nonhuman Animal Rights Activism and Vegan Pimping.” Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity 4 (2): 87-99.

Wrenn, C. L. and M. Lutz. 2016. “White Women Wanted?  An Analysis of Gender Diversity in Social Justice Magazines.” Societies 6 (2): 1-18. DOI: 10.3390/soc6020012.

Wrenn C. L. 2016 “An Analysis of Diversity in Nonhuman Animal Rights Media.” Journal for Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 29 (2): 143-165. DOI: 10.1007/s10806-015-9593-4.

Wrenn, C. L., J. Clark, M. Judge, K. Gilchrist, D. Woodlock, K. Dotson, R. Spanos, and J. Wrenn.  2015.  “The Medicalization of Nonhuman Animal Rights: Frame Contestation and the Exploitation of Disability.” Disability & Society 30 (9): 1307-1327. DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1099518.

Wrenn, C. L. 2015. “The Land of Meat and Potatoes? Exploring Ireland’s Vegan and Vegetarian Foodscape.” Preprint, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/t83yg

Wrenn, C. L.  2014.  “Fifty Shades of Oppression:  Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals.”  Relations:  Beyond Anthropocentrism 2 (1):  135-139.

Wrenn, C. L.  2013.  “The Role of Professionalization Regarding Female Exploitation in the Nonhuman Animal Rights Movement.”  Journal of Gender Studies 24 (2): 131-146. DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2013.806248.

Book Reviews

Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Advancing Veganism in a ‘Post-Vegan Society’: A Review of Veganism: Politics, Practice, and Theory.” Society & Animals Journal 32 (3): 329-331. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-bja10160.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “‘More of a Liability than an Asset’: Victorian Women’s Advocacy for Other Animals.” Society & Animals 28: 437-445. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-BJA10017.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Breaking the Spell: A Critique of Intersectionality and Veganism in Anti-Racist Activism.Society & Animals 28: 327-330.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Can Choice Feminism Advance Vegan Politics.” Society & Animals 28: 101-104. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-00001962.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-activism.” Social Movement Studies 19 (1): 107-108. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2019.1630268.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Black Veganism and the Animality Politic.” Society & Animals 27: 127-131. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-12341578.

Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “Male Dominance and Expertise in the Remembering of Irish Women’s Lives. Atlantis 38 (2): 232-234.

Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “Review. Breeze Harper. 2014. Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England. Sense Publishers.” Feminist Spaces 3 (1): 124-126.

Wrenn, C. L.  2015. “Review of Animal Oppression & Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict.” Between the Species 18 (1): 112-115.

Theses

Wrenn, C. L. 2016. Professionalization, Factionalism, and Social Movement Success:  A Case Study on Nonhuman Animal Rights Mobilization (Doctoral dissertation). Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.

Wrenn, C. L.  2008.  Powerlessness and Pollution in Alleghany County, Virginia:  A Historical Analysis of Paternalism and Economic Coercion in Appalachia and its Relationship with Environmental Degradation (Master’s thesis).  Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.

Conference Presentations

Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Animal Anxieties: Vegan Discourse in Making and Unmaking of Postcolonial Ireland.” International Association of Vegan Sociologists Annual Meeting. October 6.

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Marginalized Genders in the Animal Rights Movement: Lessons from Vegan Activists and Queer Black Feminism.” International Association of Vegan Sociologists Annual Meeting. October 7.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Animals in Irish Society.” Vegan Studies Network Seminar Series. May 25.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Vegan Feminist Activism Then and Now.” Ask Me Anything, Animal Rights Advocates Discord Server. May 14.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Gaelic Vegetarianism and Veganism & Colonial Resistance.” Food History Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research, Online. February 10.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Gaelic Veganism and Irish Animal Rights.” Talks for a Compassionate Future, Animal Rebellion Ireland, Online. January 18.

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Vegan Food Culture.” Northeast Popular and American Culture Association, Online, October 23.

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “V-Rated: Sexualization as a Mechanism of Food Justice Depoliticization.” Food & Food Systems in a time of Insecurity. British Sociological Association Food Study Group Conference, Online. June 22.

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Irish Animal Rights.” Facebook Live. Online. March 17.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Vegan Feminist Activism Then and NowBritish Society of Criminology’s Gendering Green Criminology. Online. November 26.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Animalizing AppalachiaEnvironmental History Workshop. Online. September 7.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Building a Vegan Feminist Network in the Professionalized Digital Age of Third Wave Animal Activism.American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York City, NY. August 12.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Civilizing Horses and Travellers in Post-Colonial Ireland.Decolonising Animals. Christchurch, NZ. July 2.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Resisting Rape Culture in Animal Rights Activism.Kent Vegan Festival. Canterbury, UK. May 4.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Animal Spirits and their Gendered Earthly Remains: Summoning Masculinity and
Femininity Norms in the Human-Nonhuman Relations of Ghost Stories.
Animal Remains. Sheffield, UK. April 29.

Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “The Land of Meat and Potatoes? Animal Agriculture and Veganism in the Irish Discourse.Thinking about Animals. St. Catharines, ON. March 2.

Wrenn, C. L. 2016. “Fat Vegan Politics: The Hyper-Visibility and Invisibility of Vegans of Size in Online Activist Spaces.Gender, Bodies & Technology. Roanoke, VA. April 22.

Wrenn, C. L. 2014. “Demographic Representations in Nonhuman Animal Rights Magazines and the Implications for Mobilization Efforts and Diversity.American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 17.

Wrenn, C. L. 2014. “Understanding Oppression: An Intersectional Approach.” Our Collective Struggle: Human and Nonhuman Animals. January 17. London, ON: Western Ontario Vegan Society and University Students’ Council.

Op-Eds

Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “Trump Veganism? Research Finds a Highly Intersectional American Vegan Movement.” Animals and Society Newsletter Spring: 3.

Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Factionalism in Animal Rights.” Critical Mass 42 (2): 4-6.

Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “The Disney Nonhuman Princesses.” Sex and Gender News Fall (November): 9-10.

Wrenn, C. L. 2016. “Unpacking Privilege in Vegan Education Efforts.” The Vegan Society.

Wrenn, C. L. 2015. “Vegan Policing the Vegan Woman.” The Feminist Wire.

Wrenn, C. L. 2014. “The James Franco Test: Feminists Fighting Internalized Patriarchy.” Feminist Current.

Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “The Sexual Politics of Veganism.” Pacific Standard.

Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “The Sexual Politics of Veganism.” Sociological Images.

Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “The Original Cat Ladies.” Pacific Standard.

Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “Suffragette Cats are the Original Cat Ladies.” Jezebel.


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