Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1 Image -- 1 Contemporary Art and Animal Rights -- 2 Marching on Thin Ice: The Politics of Penguin Films -- 4 Naming and the Unspeakable: Representations of Animal Deaths in Some Recent South African Print Media -- 5 Possum Magic, Possum Menace: Wildlife Control and the Demonisation of Cuteness -- PART 2 Ethics -- 6 Pleasure's Moral Worth -- 7 The Nature of the Experimental Animal: Evolution, Vivisection, and the Victorian Environment -- 8 "Room on the Ark?": The Symbolic Nature of U.S. Pet Evacuation Statutes for Nonhuman Animals -- 9 Making Animals Matter: Why the Art World Needs to Rethink the Representation of Animals -- PART 3 Agency -- 10 The Speech of Dumb Beasts -- 11 Extinction, Representation, Agency: The Case of the Dodo -- 12 Cetaceans and Sentiment -- 13 Zones of Contagion: The Singapore Body Politic and the Body of the Street-Cat -- 14 When Is Nature Not? -- Bibliography -- Index.