Our Children and Other Animals
From All-Creatures.org Book, CD and Video Review Guide

The intent of this book and video review guide is to help us to live according to Kingdom standards which bring Heaven to earth.

Authors: Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart
Reviewed by: Carol J. Adams and John Sorenson

Listen to podcast interview with Kate and Matthew on Roger Yates' On Human Relations with Other Sentient Beings.

Our Children and Other Animals: The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood by Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart is available through Ashgate

Reviews:

This examination of cultural representations of nonhuman animals is a much-needed critical contribution to the sociology of childhood. Situating practices and representations in the context of capitalist marketing, Cole and Stewart address the great moral tragedy in which children are socialized into relations of domination. This important and provocative text is certain to stimulate exciting classroom discussion.
- John Sorenson, Brock University, Canada, author of About Canada: Animal Rights

Providing a sociological approach to the issue of how children are taught to think about and experience animals, the authors illuminate the re-production of oppressive attitudes through children’s culture. Ultimately, this is a hopeful book, not only because it demonstrates the importance of sociology in understanding human-animal relations, but also because recognizing how exploitation is normalized offers possibilities for exposing its illogicality and refusing its harms.
- Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat

About the Authors:

Matthew Cole is a sociologist and an associate lecturer and visiting honorary associate at the Open University, UK. Kate Stewart is Lecturer in Social Aspects of Medicine and Health Care at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Listen to podcast interview with Kate and Matthew on Roger Yates' On Human Relations with Other Sentient Beings.

Return to Book, CD and Video Review Guide