Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society

University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine | 3800 Spruce St. Phildelphia, PA 19106 | Phone: 215.898.5438

Center for the interaction of Animals and Society
School of Veterinary Medicine,   University of Pennsylvania
Dr. James A. Serpell, Director
The Center for the Interactions of Animals and society, in collaboration with the International Socity for Anthrozoology (ISAZ) announces
The Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Relations with Animals and the Natural World and ISAZ '99

 

MEN, WOMEN AND ANIMALS:
The Influence of Gender on Our Relations with Animals and the Natural World

June 4 and 5, 1999: Room B101, Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3850 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19104

The conference theme is intended to be broad, covering not only how human gender differences affect attitudes and behavior towards animals and the natural world, or how gender differences among animals influence their behavior towards us or our perceptions of them, but also the many ways in which animals and nature are symbolically gendered in popular and scholarly discourse.

Program:   Friday, June 4   Saturday, June 5

Invited Speakers

  • "Women, Men, and Other Animals in Victorian America" Katherine C. Grier, Ph.D., Dept. of History, University of South Carolina.
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  • "Gender and Animal Protection: Why Are So Many Animal Activists Women?" Harold H. Herzog, Ph.D., Dept of Psychology, Western Carolina University.
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  • "Gender Differences in the Perpetration of Animal Cruelty." Randall Lockwood, Ph.D., Humane Society of the United States, Washington, DC.
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  • "Unlocking Pandora's Box: A Practitioner's View of Gender Effects in Canine Aggression." Myrna M. Milani DVM., Charlestown, NH.
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