Feminism – Page 2 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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

Is Nudity a Prerequisite for Vegan Women’s Strength?

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 30, 2016December 21, 2018

On International Women's Day, PETA reaffirmed in a March, 2013 blog post (since deleted) that strong women in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement are those who pose naked and sexualized for the presumed male audience. According toContinue reading

Essays

Project Intersect in Bluestockings

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 11, 2016

While visiting New York City this weekend, I stopped into Bluestockings Bookstore and found Project Intersect for sale! I was beyond thrilled that my little essay on atheism in ecofeminist spaces was tucked away in thisContinue reading

Out & About

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).