Violence – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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Violence – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

PETA, Dahmer, and Intersectional Failure

Dr. Corey WrennJune 12, 2022June 12, 2022

In 2014, the home of infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer went on the market. This sale was understandably a contentious one. Seventeen boys and men, many of whom were children, gay, prostituted, and/or persons of color were raped, tortured, killed, and sometimes eaten by Dahmer at the site. Twenty-five years later, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) made a bid to purchase it.

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Vegan Ethics and the Case for Black Widow Spiders

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 17, 2017February 2, 2019

The ethical conundrum created by human interactions with poisonous species is one that tests the limits of vegan ethics. What is the correct path of action if one should come across a potentially deadly blackContinue reading

A Month of Vegan Research: Why Civil Resistance Works

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 7, 2016August 31, 2020

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="750"] Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals[/caption] The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Chenoweth, E. andContinue reading

Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. 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 is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. 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), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).

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