Feminism Archives - Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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.

Presentations

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

Essays

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

Publications

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

Interviews

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

Essays

What is Intersectionality?

Dr. Corey WrennMay 11, 2018September 9, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlrnRkuNVE&t=207s Mainstream theories of social inequality frequently compartmentalize experiences, but inequality rarely works that way in real life. Instead, individuals are comprised of many different identities at once, and these identities will interact with oneContinue reading

Interviews

Irish Vegan Feminism: Intersections of Sexism, Speciesism, and Resistance in Postcolonial Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 15, 2018July 16, 2018

In Animal Rights, Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, David Nibert (2002) suggests that the switch from an egalitarian economic structure to hunting initiated gender distinction such that sexism and speciesism are most accuratelyContinue reading

Essays

Animal Abolitionism, a 19th Century Holdover

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 25, 2017December 1, 2018

The desire to totally liberate other animals from human oppression is generally thought a product of late 20th century imagining. In today's capitalistic movement, activists and organizations scramble to specialize and copyright their particular brandContinue reading

Essays

Tag: Feminism

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

Gender and Victorian Animal Advocacy

Age, Gender, and Veganism

Why Food Justice is a Feminist Issue

Veganism “At All Costs” Costs Animals

What is Intersectionality?

Irish Vegan Feminism: Intersections of Sexism, Speciesism, and Resistance in Postcolonial Ireland

Animal Abolitionism, a 19th Century Holdover

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