摘要：Raising the question, “Has Animal Studies been good for actual animals?” this essay addresses over twenty years of feminist animal studies that developed between the more visible years of the Singer/Regan era of the 1970s and the renewed interest in animals subsequent to Derrida’s (2002) celebrated discovery of animal subjectivity. Feminist communication theory may explain the reasons that, although feminists have been speaking on this topic for decades, masculinist-elite academics have not been listening. Since the reinvigorated version of academic animal studies recognizes no obligation to act on behalf of actual animals, the lack of “uptake” for feminist animal studies has been particularly devastating for the well-being of nonhuman animals.
