The Oxen at the Intersection

The Oxen at the Intersection
Author :
Publisher : Lantern Books
Total Pages : 181
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781590564608
ISBN-13 : 159056460X
Rating : 4/5 (60X Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Oxen at the Intersection by : Pattrice Jones

Download or read book The Oxen at the Intersection written by Pattrice Jones and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, pattrice jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: to allow the elderly bovines to retire to the sanctuary. What transpired after this simple offer was a catastrophe of miscommunication, misdirection, and misinterpretations, as the college dug in its heels, activists piled on, and social media erupted. Part true-crime mystery, part on-the-ground reportage, and part sociocultural critique, The Oxen at the Intersection is a brilliant unearthing of the assumptions, preconceptions, and biases that led all concerned with the lives and deaths of these two animals to fail to achieve their ends. How and why the threads of this story unspooled, as jones reveals, raises profound questions—most particularly about how ideas rooted in history, race, gender, region, and speciesism intersect and complicate strategy and activism, and their desired outcomes. In the end, notes jones, we must always ask, Where’s the body?


The Oxen at the Intersection Related Books

The Oxen at the Intersection
Language: en
Pages: 181
Authors: Pattrice Jones
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-18 - Publisher: Lantern Books

GET EBOOK

When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of
The White Ox
Language: en
Pages: 37
Authors: Ruth Hailstone
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Calkins Creek Books

GET EBOOK

Emily Swain Squires was so tiny at birth she would have fit in a teacup. Now she is 10 years old and leaving her family behind in England to travel to her new h
A Poem Containing History
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Lawrence S. Rainey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

GET EBOOK

A suggestive survey of new approaches to a twentieth-century classic
Critical Responses to Kenneth Burke, 1924-1966
Language: en
Pages: 543
Authors: William H. Rueckert
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1969 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

GET EBOOK

Sagas From the Far East
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Anonymous
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-13 - Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

GET EBOOK

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.