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Género y sexualidad en el documental animalista y de naturaleza

Género y sexualidad en el documental animalista y de naturaleza is a book coordinated by  Claudia Alonso Recarte. In it, Dr. Carlos Tabernero, director of the iHC and professor at the UAB, contributes with the chapter titled “De Lobos, madres y jefes. Convenciones narrativas, discurso de género y divulgación de historia natural”.

Over the past decades, issues related to animal ethics and the (audio)visual representation of non-human animals have become central to Western cultural discourses that explore the meaning of identity categories as experiential frameworks. Far from being isolated discriminatory practices, speciesism and sexism represent parallel forms of domination rooted in narratives upheld by traditions and conventions that perpetuate abuse and exploitation. In light of the growing critical interest in the documentary genre as a format for questioning and/or reinforcing normative narratives, this volume brings together a series of studies whose common denominator is the intersectionality between the constructs of gender, sexuality, and non-human animals in a selection of animal rights, nature, and wildlife documentaries. Throughout its seven chapters, the authors trace the narrative parameters, cinematic techniques, and rhetorical strategies of persuasion employed by documentaries in their exploration of new readings of the life, objectification, and death of non-human animals in an undeniably anthropocentric and androcentric world.

To cite this book chapter:
Tabernero, Carlos (2025). “De Lobos, madres y jefes. Convenciones narrativas, discurso de género y divulgación de historia natural”. En Alonso Recarte, Claudia (ed.) Género y sexualidad en el documental animalista y de naturaleza. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch, pp. 181-200.
 

Published by Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch, Plural Collection; Print ISBN: 9788410811188, eBook ISBN: 9788410811195.