Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Prologue: Remember the 2000-Year-Old Man? Part I 1. Kissing Cousins 2. Forget the Alamo... 3. The Newly Born Century 4. Sisters of the Bone Part II 5. Apes 'r Us 6. When Apes Rule 7. Again, by a Declaration of Rights 8. From Cage to Caves 9. Trees of Origin 10. Bonobos in Our Midst Part III 11. Kintimacy: Blood Brothers 12. Of Pigs and Men 13. Mendel's Nephew 14. Of Love and Law Epilogue: Here Come the Cavemen Works Cited Works Consulted Index

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" Kissing Cousins is an extremely well-written effort to come to terms with new modes of kinship and new modes of imagining human community. The text makes a clear argument for the widening of those circles of sentient beings with whom humans have kinship. How broadly we conceive kinship has direct bearing on the conditions and limits of empathy and affiliation, and this has direct consequences for matters of love and war. Moving, singular, provocative, and pervasively intelligent, Kissing Cousins will appeal not only to academic readers in literary and cultural studies but also to an interdisciplinary range of readers in science and animal studies, anthropology, and film studies." -- Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley

About the Author

Frances Bartkowski is associate professor of English and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Feminist Utopias and Travelers and Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement, and the coeditor of Feminist Theory: A Reader.