Episode Notes

We're back! This week we're speaking with Professor Erica Fudge and Dr Elsa Richardson about all things Fleshy History. Erica and Elsa are based at the University of Strathclyde where they currently co-teach a course all about vegetarian culture and eating animals. Erica's work emerges at the intersection of Renaissance Studies and Animal Studies while Elsa is a New Generation Thinker and currently holds a Chancellor's Fellowship in Health and Wellbeing. In this episode we find out what bladder control and pissing dogs have to do with the Enlightenment, why a woman giving birth to a cat was pretty common for the Renaissance, and how horrendously itchy the C19th was. We also consider if cows are the sharks of the land, what the Victorians thought about Birkenstocks and queer vegetarianism.

You can find out more about Erica's work by following the British Animal Studies Network @BASN and find out more about Elsa's work here @elsacrichardson