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Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 What is Meat Culture? -- Chapter 2 Derrida and The Sexual Politics of Meat -- Chapter 3 Rotten to the Bone: Discourses of Contamination and Purity in the European Horsemeat Scandal -- Chapter 4 Live Exports, Animal Advocacy, Race and 'Animal Nationalism' -- Chapter 5 The Whopper Virgins: Hamburgers, Gender, and Xenophobia in Burger King's Hamburger Advertising -- Chapter 6 With Care for Cows and a Love for Milk: Affect and Performance in Swedish Dairy Industry Marketing Strategies

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sexology and its discontents -- Let's get meta(physical) -- Intellectualizing sex -- Preparing for take-off: the sequence of events -- Part One: The Science/Fiction of Sex -- 1 Sexual science fiction -- The discursive construction of sex -- The genesis of sexology -- The vocabularies of sexology -- Sexology and safer sex -- 2 War of the worlds -- Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus -- The science (fiction) of sex: Mars and Venus in the bedroom -- The construction of pleasure: male (s)expertise, female surrender -- Afterplay: Gray strikes out -- Part Two: The Vocabularies of Heterosex -- 3 The day the earth stood still -- Deconstructing orgasm -- Textual analysis of orgasm -- (In)conclusion: disrupting the phallic orgasm -- 4 The man with two brains -- The infusion of body and culture with/in the sexual self -- The exteriorization of masculine heterosexual experience -- Measuring up: firmer, faster, bigger is better -- On-going speculations -- 5 The incredible shrinking man -- The penis stands in for/up for the man -- The 'dysfunctional' penis: how the mind matters -- Expanding in other ways: sexual pleasure in excess of the erect penis -- 6 Innerspace -- Interior designs: the feminization of space and the spatialization of woman -- Foreign bodies and hazardous fluids: the 'curse' of woman -- Regulating material girls -- Changing place -- 7 The final frontier -- "Putting things in there": the benefits of exteriority -- Gain and pain: gendered first experiences of heterosexual intercourse -- Avenging lips: women's discursive resistance to colonization -- 8 Brave new worlds -- It's sex, but not as we know it -- The outer limits -- (Anti-climax) A plateau -- Parting comments, future sexes -- Revamping the sexual -- Spacing out.

In this article I employ Deleuzian theory in an exploration of men's and women's experiences of sexuality and sexual relations when encountering erectile difficulties and/or using sexuopharmaceuticals such as Viagra (sildenafil). I analyse the ways in which accounts of the function of Viagra-assisted erections can be seen to restore or re-establish previous sexual conventions or patterns (in Deleuzian terms, to 're-territorialize' desire in 'molar' directions), and the ways in which Viagra use may change or challenge such patterns. Also examined are the alternative stories of those for whom Viagra hasn't 'worked'; these accounts demonstrate how the persistence of erectile difficulties produces positive opportunities for experimentation, creativity and transformation in the realm of the erotic.

The condition known as "impotence" demonstrates the inscription on individual male bodies of a coital imperative: the surface of the male body interfuses with culture to produce the "fiction" of a dysfunctional nonpenetrative male (hetero)sexuality. The impotent man embodies this cultural narrative; his perceived failure to erect his penis and perform (with it) according to dominant phallocratic notions of healthy male heterosexuality infiltrates his flesh, actions, and thoughts. This article employs feminist poststructuralist discursive analysis to investigate the effect of the metonymic relationship between the penis and the phallus on the cultural construction of male "sexual dysfunctions." It explores the medicalization of male sexuality, focusing on the impact of so-called "erectile dysfunction" on male bodies and lives; in particular, the use of intrapenile injections as a medical intervention for this "disorder." It is argued that by relinquishing the penis's executive position in sex, male bodies might become differently inscribed, and coded for diverse pleasures beyond the phallus/penis.

An influential feminist scholar in the field of human-animal studies, Donna Haraway (Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz) has over the past couple of decades provided ground-breaking critiques of such subjects as twentieth century primatology (and its links to race, gender and first-world/third-world politics), the place of nonhuman animals in laboratory science, and the phenomenon of pedigree dog breeding. Her most recent work focuses on our relationships with 'companion species', a term Haraway employs in her analysis of the diverse forms of human-animal interactions and exchanges that are part of everyday life. Drawing from ecological developmental biology, she suggests that companion species are the fruit of 'multispecies reciprocal inductions'. In the following interview with Annie Potts (Co-Director, the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies), Donna Haraway discusses her views on, amongst other things, feminism and multispecies issues, human exceptionalism and posthumanism, and the pleasures of 'becoming with' our companion species.

The terms 'vegansexuality' and 'vegansexuals' entered popular discourse following substantial media interest in a New Zealand-based academic study on ethical consumption that noted that some vegans engaged in sexual relationships and intimate partnerships only with other vegans. At this time it was suggested that a spectrum existed in relation to cruelty-free consumption and sexual relationships: at one end of this spectrum, a form of sexual preference influenced by veganism entailed an increased likelihood of sexual attraction towards those who shared similar beliefs regarding the exploitation of non-human animals; at the other end of the spectrum such a propensity might manifest as a strong sexual aversion to the bodies of those who consume meat and other animal products. The extensive media hype about (and public response to) vegansexuality was predominantly negative and derogatory towards 'vegansexuals' and vegans/vegetarians. A particular aggression was evident in online comments by those positioned as heterosexual meat-eating men. In this article we examine the hostile responses to vegansexuality and veganism posted by such men on internet news and journalism sites, personal blogs and chatrooms. We argue that the rhetoric associated with this backlash constructs vegansexuals — and vegans more generally — as (sexual) losers, cowards, deviants, failures and bigots. Furthermore, we suggest that the vigorous reactions of self-identified omnivorous men demonstrate how the notion of alternative sexual practices predicated on the refusal of meat culture radically challenges the powerful links between meat-eating, masculinity and virility in western societies.

"[This] is a groundbreaking examination of the interactions between humans and 'nonhuman animals' - both real and imagined - in New Zealand's arts and literature, popular culture, historiography, media and everyday life. Structured in four parts, [it] touches on topics as diverse as moa-hunting and the SPCA, pest-control and pet-keeping, whaling and whale-watching; on species ranging from sheep to sperm whales and from pekapeka to possums; and on the works of authors and artists as various as Samuel Butler and Witi Ihimaera, Lady Mary Ann Barker and Janet Frame, Michael Parekowhai and Don Binney, Bill Hammond and Fiona Pardington. In examining literature, art and culture, the ways New Zealanders use and abuse, shape and are shaped by, glorify and co-opt, and describe and imagine animals, the authors tell us a great deal about our society and culture: how we understand our own identities and those of others; how we regard, inhabit and make use of the natural world; and how we think about what to buy, eat, wear, watch and read."--Publisher's information

There is a common saying in Aotearoa New Zealand: 'the only good possum is a dead possum'. This colloquialism demonstrates much about the negative reputation and maltreatment of brushtail possums in New Zealand. Introduced to this country from their native Australia in the 1800s, possums thrived in their new predator-free environment. Possums' adaptability has since proved to be problematic, not least for the nation's lucrative meat and dairy industries. In the past few decades a concerted campaign mounted by the New Zealand government has targeted possums as ruthless pests, demonizing these marsupials to the extent that international tourists are even advised to swerve while driving on the country's roads in order to hit and kill these animals. This paper examines how the print news media in New Zealand frames possums in a way that helps to sustain and encourage violence towards these marsupials. We argue that print media in New Zealand promote an overwhelmingly negative representation of possums which influences cultural understandings and public attitudes – ultimately reproducing and reinforcing hatred, disrespect and maltreatment of possums as pests warranting extermination and undeserving of compassion.

There is a common saying in Aotearoa New Zealand: 'the only good possum is a dead possum'. This colloquialism demonstrates much about the negative reputation and maltreatment of brushtail possums in New Zealand. Introduced to this country from their native Australia in the 1800s, possums thrived in their new predator-free environment. Possums' adaptability has since proved to be problematic, not least for the nation's lucrative meat and dairy industries. In the past few decades a concerted campaign mounted by the New Zealand government has targeted possums as ruthless pests, demonizing these marsupials to the extent that international tourists are even advised to swerve while driving on the country's roads in order to hit and kill these animals. This paper examines how the print news media in New Zealand frames possums in a way that helps to sustain and encourage violence towards these marsupials. We argue that print media in New Zealand promote an overwhelmingly negative representation of possums which influences cultural understandings and public attitudes – ultimately reproducing and reinforcing hatred, disrespect and maltreatment of possums as pests warranting extermination and undeserving of compassion.