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Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Vegan Feminist Sociologist, Writer, and Activist

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A Sociology of Childless Cat Ladies

A Sociology of Childless Cat Ladies
Dr. Corey WrennJuly 30, 2024July 30, 2024
Following the comments made by vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance on presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, I was approached by the Huffington Post to share my thoughts on the sociological background of the childless catContinue reading
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Sexism in Animal Advocacy: The Case of Foie Gras

Sexism in Animal Advocacy: The Case of Foie Gras
Dr. Corey WrennApril 29, 2024April 29, 2024

Foie gras victims are usually male, and both women and men are involved in victimizing them as producers and as consumers, but, because patriarchal, woman-hating culture is most accustomed to viewing women as frivilous consumers and sexy victims of violence, the Nonhuman Animal rights movement regularly employs female activists to take on these convoluted roles in protest.

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Why Vegan Sociology?

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 21, 2023March 21, 2023

Vegan sociology argues that Nonhuman Animals are persons in their own right, their oppression is worthy of academic attention, and their oppression deeply intersects with the oppression of other marginalized groups such as women, people of color, and lower-class persons.

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Third-Wave Vegan Feminism and Feminist Animal Studies

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 22, 2023February 22, 2023
In my chapter for Feminist Animal Studies (Routledge 2022) edited by Erika Cudworth, Ruth E. McKie and Di Turgoose, I argue that vegan feminist activism has entered a millennial third wave. This wave, I argue,Continue reading
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Can We “Have Our Cow and Eat Her, Too?”

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 20, 2022November 20, 2022

The weaponization fo science and naturalism to rank the worth of marginalized groups, dictate their moral worth, and control their lives (usually in highly exploitative ways) is a classic project of Western, white supremacist patriarchal colonial conquest. The entitlement to other living beings, both in reality and symbolically, should be challenged.

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V-Rated: Sexualization as a Mechanism of Food Justice Depoliticization

Dr. Corey WrennMay 26, 2021May 26, 2021

Veganism is depoliticized by patriarchal practices of sexual objectification and capitalistic practices of commodity fetishism. Sexualization transforms veganism from a mode of resistance into a mode of complicity.

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Gender and Victorian Animal Advocacy

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 3, 2020July 8, 2020
Although the nonhuman animal rights movement in the West is frequently framed by activists and remembered by historians as gender-neutral, Donald’s (2020) Women against Cruelty (which examines meeting notes and campaigning documents reaching back toContinue reading
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Age, Gender, and Veganism

Dr. Corey WrennMay 16, 2020May 16, 2020
In a publication authored with my colleague Alexus Lizardi, Older, Greener, and Wiser: Charting the Experiences of Older Women in the American Vegan Movement, we offer the first exploratory research on an underserved demographic: olderContinue reading
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Why Food Justice is a Feminist Issue

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 15, 2018
In an interview with Alternet's "Here's Why Our Food Systems are a Central Feminist Issue," I was asked to elaborate on women's contributions to critical food justice and how current sexual politics inhibit or evenContinue reading
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Veganism “At All Costs” Costs Animals

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 9, 2018January 26, 2019
As my academic interests have turned to intersections of human and nonhuman inequality, I've come to recognize that many entanglements of oppression operate unchallenged within social justice spaces themselves. Unfortunately, the Nonhuman Animal rights/vegan movementContinue 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).

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