Activism – Page 6 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

A Month of Vegan Research: Recruiting Strangers and Friends

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 22, 2016June 1, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. J. Jasper and J. Poulsen. 1995. "Recruiting Strangers and Friends: MoralContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 16, 2016June 8, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Diane Beers. 2006. For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and LegacyContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: The Movement is My Life

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 15, 2016November 14, 2016

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Harold A. Herzog Jr. 1993. "'The Movement is My Life': The PsychologyContinue reading

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Fat Vegan Politics: Why Health-shaming, Body-policing, and Fat Stigma Hurts Humans and Other Animals

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 13, 2016December 16, 2018

This month I published a qualitative study on fat vegan experiences in the journal of Fat Studies. Sixty-one respondents kindly gave their time to fill out a questionnaire asking a range of questions about their experiencesContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Veganism as a Cultural Movement

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 9, 2016June 8, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Cherry, E. 2006. "Veganism as a Cultural Movement: A Relational Approach."Continue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Why Civil Resistance Works

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 7, 2016August 31, 2020

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="750"] Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals[/caption] The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Chenoweth, E. andContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Why Feminist-Vegan Now?

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 4, 2016June 26, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Carol Adams. 2010. "Why Feminist-Vegan Now?" Feminism & Psychology 20 (3):Continue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Women and the Animal Rights Movement

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 3, 2016June 26, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Emily Gaarder. 2011. Women and the Animal Rights Movement. New Brunswick,Continue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: An Empirical Look at Becoming Vegan

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 2, 2016October 25, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Barbara McDonald. 2000. "'Once You Know Something, You Can't Not Know It.'Continue reading

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The Surprising History of John Harvey Kellogg and His War on “Meat”

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 14, 2016January 18, 2019

But although the sheep goes dumb to the slaughter, do not its [sic] eloquent eyes appeal for mercy? Do not the bleating of the calf, the bellowing of the bull, the cackling of the frightenedContinue reading

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Dr. Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. 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 co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. 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), Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021), Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming, Routledge, and Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).