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A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation - and the debut of an important new social criticHow much of what we understand of ourselves as "human" depends on our physical and mental abilities - how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much does our definition of "human" depend on its difference from "animal"?Drawing on her own experiences as a disabled person, a disability activist, and an animal advocate, author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply, and sometimes uncomfortably, about what divides the human from the animal, the disabled from the nondisabled - and what it might mean to break down those divisions, to claim the animal and the vulnerable in ourselves, in a process she calls "cripping animal ethics.