differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from March 2004

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from March 2004

Editors' note.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... In November 2003, the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University hosted a conference on an old topic that seems always to generate new answers: the difference between humans and other animals. The two-day symposium on "Man and Beast" was...

Animal relatives, difficult relations.
March 22, 2004... The title of this essay points to two sets of interrelated difficulties. (1) Those in the first set arise chronically from our individual psychologically complex and often ambivalent relations to animals. The second set reflects the...

The origin of the specious.
March 22, 2004... Everybody is trying to demystify everything. We're trying to do the opposite, to mystify again. We're in a constant battle against medicine, science and religion. --Ed Clontz, editor, Weekly World News (qtd. in Paskal 19) Animal...

Our animal cousins.
March 22, 2004... It is a historical commonplace--it could even be called a factoid--that the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859 marked a kind of watershed in the understanding of the relationship between humans and (as we now say...

The wolf in the dog: animal fables and state formation.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... At the time of her death, Naomi Schor had two projects in course: the conference that she had conceived and organized on man and beast and a long-term, wide-ranging, impossibly difficult essay on what she termed "French universalism." What...

Animals that talk; or, stutter.
March 22, 2004... That Animals Talk When I was a child, my favorite stutterer was Aesop. I was sure that Aesop had really existed. (1) My edition of his works made it plain that Aesop was handicapped both as to body and as to speech: he was born "most...