de-animalize

English

Verb

de-animalize (third-person singular simple present de-animalizes, present participle de-animalizing, simple past and past participle de-animalized)

1. Alternative form of deanimalize
   • 1979, Michael A. Simpson, The Facts of Death: A Complete Guide for Being Prepared, page 23:

     "We will continue to animalize our bodies," they tell us, "creating new durable attractive physiologies."

   • 2001, Carrie L. Rohman, Stalking the Subject, page 66:

     Through Moreau's character, Wells exposes the repression inherent in an Enlightenment project of transcendence that attempted to de-animalize the human subject.

   • 2007, Erin E. Williams, Margo DeMello, Why Animals Matter: The Case for Animal Protection, page 222:

     While these different characterizations of the rat perfectly capture the public's ambivalence toward animal research and the work that scientists must do to alleviate that concern, rats are not the only animals who researchers de-animalize.

   • 2017, Ian Werkheiser, Zachary Piso, Food Justice in US and Global Contexts:

     The next section of this chapter uses this case study to illustrate how the above changes combined with class strife to de-animalize the city and thus reduce the food sovereignty of immigrant populations in urban contexts.