Sharon Patricia Holland, an other

In an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life, Sharon Patricia Holland intertwines feminism and race theory to understand the relationship between humans, animals, and Blackness. Holland’s exploration of these issues is conducted through the lens of vulnerability, and specifically, the question of what it means “[t]o be (made) vulnerable” (3).At the very beginning of her study, Holland explains how she uses the key terms throughout the book, including “hum/animal,” “hum:animal,”

Animal life · Art history · Biology · Environmental ethics · Sociology · Zoology · American Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society