Barbara Noske

Barbara Miriam Noske is a Dutch cultural anthropologist and philosopher.

She introduced the concept animal–industrial complex in her 1989 book Humans and Other Animals.

[1][2][3] Noske holds a MA in socio-cultural anthropology and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam.

In the 1990s, Noske taught environmental ethics, ecology and ecofeminism at York University in Toronto while a research fellow in the Faculty of Environmental Studies.

[4] According to Anne Scott, Noske "was among the earliest feminist authors to raise the question of human relationships with other animals in a non-essentialist manner".