4 Bears in Gay Culture: Histories, Discourses and Anthropomorphism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. List of Abbreviations xi
6. Foreword: The Bear: A Cultural and Natural Heritage xii
7. Introduction: What is a Bear? 1
8. Bear-People Interactions
9. 1 The Spirit Bear 13
10. 2 Out of the Wild Wood and into our Beds: The Evolutionary History of Teddy Bears and the Natural Selection of Deadly Cuteness 23
11. 3 Bears within the Human Landscape: Cultural and Demographic Factors Influencing the Use of Bear Parts in Cambodia and Laos 33
12. 4 Bears in Gay Culture: Histories, Discourses and Anthropomorphism 45
13. 5 Bears, Wildmen, Yeti and Sasquatch 55
14. 6 Bears in Children’s Literature 67
15. 7 Knowing Individual Bears 77
16. Bears in the Public Gaze
17. 8 Bears Behind Bars: Captive Bears Throughout History 93
18. 9 The Bear in the Museum 107
19. 10 Museum Polar Bears and Climate Change 119
20. 11 On the Oblique Imperative: What Revealing Conceals and Concealing may Reveal 131
21. 12 Visitations: The Social and Cultural History of Polar Bear Narratives in Iceland and the North Atlantic 147
22. Bear Biology, Management and Conservation
23. 13 Chemical Signalling in Brown Bears 163
24. 14 Reducing Uncertainty in Bear Management 177
25. 15 Living with Bears in Europe 187
26. 16 Citizen Science and Bears 199
27. 17 Understanding Local Folklore and Attitudes in Apennine Brown Bear Conservation 211
28. 18 Reducing Human Impacts on Andean Bears in NW Peru Through Community-based Conservation 221
29. Afterword: ‘It’s Me Bear’: Reflections on a Unique Career Working with Bears 233
30. List of Contributors 241
31. Index 247
32. Previous titles 253