Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date of this Version
2018
Citation
From the book Living with Animals: Bonds across Species, Edited by: Natalie Porter and Ilana Gershon Published by Cornell University Press 2018 ; https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501724831
This chapter (#11) is https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501724831-013
Abstract
The conceit of section one of this essay is partial role reversal. How would a doctor who was a cow explain to yearling interns how to breed humans? This is what a cow might sound like if she thought about humans the ways that human purebred livestock breeders think about cows. Section two switches back to a human perspective and treats the extensive interventions into cattle reproduction as the mundane options that they have become for many farmers. This essay highlights the traffic of reproductive technologies across the porous human-bovine species boundary.
Comments
De Gruyter allows authors the use of the final published version of an article (publisher pdf) for self-archiving (author's personal website) and/or archiving in an institutional repository (on a non-profit server) after an embargo period of 12 months after publication.