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Research Interests for M Kathy Rudy

Research Interests: Ethics, Animals, Feminism, Religion, Food Politics, Conservation, Ecofeminism

Rudy's early research included reproductive ethics, religious ethics, sexuality, and feminist theory. Among publications in her early years are Sex and the Church Gender, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Christian Ethics (Beacon Press 1997), Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: Moral Diversity in the Abortion Debate (Beacon Press, 1996), as well as many scholarly articles. Her new work focuses on animals and ethics, nature, food politics, ecology, and ecofeminism. Her new book is Loving Animals, Minnesota 2011. She also has several essays coming out in the next year, including “LGBTQ…Z?,” “Locavorism, Feminism, and the Question of Meat,” “On Changing the (Post) Human Subject,” and "Bestial Imaginings."

Keywords:
Ethics, , Animals,, Feminism, , Religion, , Food Politics,, Companion Animals,, Zoos and Sanctuaries
Current projects:
Loving Animals
Areas of Interest:

Ethics,
Animals,
Feminism,
Religion,
Food Politics,
Conservation,
Ecofeminism

Recent Publications   (search)
  1. Kathy Rudy, Loving Animals (September, 2011)
  2. Kathy Rudy, LGBTQ...Z (2011)
  3. M.K. Rudy, Locavores, Feminism, and the Question of Meat, Journal of AMerican Culture (2011)
  4. M.K. Rudy, If We Could Talk to the Animals, in Speaking in Tongues (2011)
  5. Kathy Rudy, Feminism and Animals, Signs (2011)

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