Cat People

Based on multispecies ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in the UK, this book explores the social world of the cat fancy, or the leisure activity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree cats, with attention to the relations that breeding and showing practices generate between human guardians, and both pedigree and non-pedigree cats.

Emily Stone is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) Working Group at the University of Exeter, UK.

1. From Mouser to the Catwalk: The Journey of the Domestic Cat 2. On the Catwalk: Champion Cats 3. Learning to Look at Cats: Enskilment, Aesthetics and Feline Agency 4. Shaping Cats: Breeding, Eugenics and Biopower 5. Cat Fancy Sociality: The Serious Leisure of Exhibiting Cats 6. Love is Complicated: Cat Care Compromises and Relational Entanglements with Harm 7. A Dying Breed: The Perceived Decline of the Cat Fancy 8. Conclusions: The Co-Becoming of Cat People