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5 Can. J. Comp. & Contemp. L. 111 (2019)
Feminist Jurisprudence for Farmed Animals

handle is hein.journals/cajccl5 and id is 121 raw text is: Feminist Jurisprudence for Farmed Animals Jessica Eisen* Feminism and animal advocacy share a long history of interconnections. The application offeminist insights andanalyses to the study of human-animal legal relations, however, represents a more recent development. This article proposes to examine the ways that feminist jurisprudence, as a distinct branch of feminist theory, might contribute depth and nuance to our collective understanding of the ways that human beings relate to animals through law. As this article will demonstrate, there is already a vibrant, if nascent, scholarly community developingfeminist analyses of animal law. This article aims to identify this scholarly community, take stock of its emerging lines of inquiry, and sketch a set of common themes. In so doing, this article will offer an account of how the lessons and insights offeminist legal theory might apply to thefield of animal law, and will furnish examples of how this work is already being done. In particular, this article willfocus on four themes within feministjurisprudence that stand to enrich the study ofanimallaw, namely: a) revealing the importance oflegal method; b) rethinking sameness' and 'dfference and c) troubling categories of analysis; and d) recognizing rights as relational. Assistant Professor, University of Alberta Faculty of Law. The author wishes to thank Martha Minow, Maneesha Deckha, the participants in the Harvard Law School SJD Association 2018 Workshop, the participants in the University of Alberta Faculty of Law Faculty Workshop, and the participants in the University of Victorias Animals and Society Research Initiative, for helpful comments on early drafts. The author is also grateful to the burgeoning community of critical and feminist animal law scholars for the creative, passionate and compelling work that has inspired and shaped this contribution. Finally, thanks are owed to Carol J Adams, for her foundational work applying feminist theory to the lives, circumstances, and cultural representations of animals, and for her unflagging support for new voices and new directions building on her insights.

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