Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice: The V Word

Part I: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Vegetarianism.- Chapter 1. State of Meatlessness: Voluntary and involuntary vetegarianism in early twentieth century Italy. Carol Helstolsy.- Chapter 2. Taking an Anti-Sacrificial Stance: The Essentializing Rhetoric and Affective Nature of Meat Consumption in Islam. Nora Abdul-Aziz, Daniella Fedak-Lengel, and Lara Martin Lengel.- Chapter 3. Because We Care: Veganism and Politics in Israel. Sharon Avital.- Chapter 4. Veg(etari)anism in Serbia: Attack on Traditional Values. Mirjana Uzelac.- Chapter 5. Ancient Text, Modern Context: Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and the Twenty-First Century Veg(etari)an. Sharon Lauricella.- Part II: Veg(etari)anism as Embodied Practice.- Chapter 6. The Accidental Vegetarian: Object-Oriented Ontology at the Intersection of Alpha-Gal Mammalian Meat Allergy. Elizabeth Baddour.- Chapter 7. "You Are What You Eat" Oprah, Amarillo, and Food Politics. Callie Kostelich and Heidi Hakimi-Hood.- Chapter 8. Queer Hunger: Human and Animal Bodies in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood. Molly Mann.- Part III: Eco vs Ego: The transformative potential of veg(etari)anism.- Chapter 9. Laying Down with the Lamb: Abolitionist Veganism, the Rhetoric of Human Exceptionalism, and the End of Creation. David Stubblefield and Dynestee Fields.- Chapter 10. Feeling Bad? Veganism, Climate Change, and the Rhetoric of Cowspiracy. Alexa Weik von Mossner.- Chapter 11. Constituting Vegetarian Audiences: Orchestrations of Ecogenctric, Anthropocentric, Ecocentric Exigencies in Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals. Oren Abeles and Emma Lozon.- Chapter 12. Beyond Diet: Veganism as Liberatory Praxis. Tara Roeder.