Companion Animals and Domestic Violence: Rescuing Me, Rescuing You

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In this book, Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser consider how we might better understand human-animal companionship in the context of domestic violence. The authors advocate an intersectional feminist understanding, drawing on a variety of data from numerous projects they have conducted with people, about their companion animals and links between domestic violence and animal abuse, arguing for a new understanding that enables animals to be constituted as victims of domestic violence in their own right. The chapters analyse the mutual, loving connections that can be formed across species, and in households where there is domestic violence. Companion Animals and Domestic Violence also speaks to the potentially soothing, healing and recovery oriented aspects of human-companion animal relationships before, during and after the violence, and will be of interest to various academic disciplines including social work, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, geography, as well as to professionals working in domestic violence or animal welfare service provision. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Human and Animal Victims of Domestic Violence: Being Rescued (Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser)....Pages 1-25 The Links In-and-Between Human-Animal Abuses: Love, Loyalty, and Pain (Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser)....Pages 27-55 What We Choose to Hear: Researching Human-Animal Violence (Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser)....Pages 57-89 Being Subjected to Domestic Violence: Empathic Love and Domination (Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser)....Pages 91-120 Foregrounding Companion Animals’ Experiences of Domestic Violence (Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser)....Pages 121-151 Supporting Victims/Survivors: Escape, Refuge, and Recovery (Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser)....Pages 153-184 The Work of Significant Other/s: Companion Animal Relationships in the Future (Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser)....Pages 185-217 Back Matter ....Pages 219-222