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Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Vegan Feminist Sociologist, Writer, and Activist

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Study Shows Objectified Women Less Likely to be Activists

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 21, 2016January 11, 2019
  A study published in Psychological Science finds that women who self-objectify are less likely to challenge the status quo of gender inequality. These findings could have serious implications for the Nonhuman Animal rights repertoire. Anti-speciesism activism, in general, supportsContinue reading
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Selling Cancer to Beat Cancer? When Nonvegan Foods Go Pink for Profit

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 24, 2016January 4, 2019
Vegan theory acknowledges not only the systematic violence imposed on vulnerable Nonhuman Animals but also the tendency for this oppression to intersect with the suffering of vulnerable humans. One such instance occurs in the pink ribbon "findContinue reading
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If You Care about Animals, In-Vitro Meat is Not the Answer

Dr. Corey WrennMay 30, 2016December 21, 2018
Posed as the perfect neoliberal solution to relieving speciesism while protecting markets and consumer desires, a number of non-profits have positioned themselves in support of in vitro research in pursuit of "lab grown meat." However,Continue reading
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Conserving What Exactly? Anthropocentrism in College Conservation Programs

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 3, 2016March 7, 2016
University conservation programs often entail lethal Nonhuman Animal testing   Jonathan Balcombe, director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy, has authored a book that explores the “the inner life of fishes”: What aContinue 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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