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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

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A Month of Vegan Research: Identity and Effectiveness

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 29, 2016November 25, 2016

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Rachel Einwohner. 1999. "Gender, Class, and Social Movement Outcomes: Identity andContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 28, 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. Brian Luke’s 2007 book, Brutal: Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals,Continue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Sexist Imagery Reinforces Speciesist Sentiment

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 21, 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. Carol Glasser. 2011. "Tied Oppressions: An Analysis of How Sexist ImageryContinue 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: Animals and Women

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 1, 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. Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan. 1995. Animals and Women: FeministContinue reading

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Unnecessarily Gendered Vegan Food

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 10, 2016January 26, 2019

"Organic Girl Good Clean Greens," because only women eat organic? Perhaps because it challenges a controlling and hierarchical relationship with the environment, organic consumption and food products are often feminized. Men dominate the environment, forceContinue reading

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What Are You Doing to Help Animals Right NOW?

Dr. Corey WrennApril 4, 2016September 3, 2018

In this essay, I will deconstruct what people really mean when they pull on what Michele Kaplan calls, "The Urgency." The urgency of Nonhuman Animal suffering ("RIGHT NOW!") is exploited as a diversion tactic: no timeContinue 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).