Anne Innis Dagg

Anne Innis Dagg (born 1933, Toronto) is a Canadian zoologist, feminist, and author of numerous books. She has made a “significant contribution to giraffes worldwide in an unprecedented way.” ^[1]

Career

Anne Innis earned a master’s degree in genetics from the University of Toronto. She went alone to Africa in 1956–57 to study the behavior of giraffe. On returning to Canada, she earned a PhD at the University of Waterloo, analyzing and comparing the gaits of giraffe and other large mammals. At the time this university did not hire women in the biology department, so she worked in a program where students did the hiring. Today she works in Independent Studies, an evolution of that Program. Her research produced over 60 refereed scientific papers on such subjects as homosexuality, behavior of mammals, sociobiology, feminism, sexism at universities, and the rights of animals. She has also written 20 books and over 100 articles on these topics.^[2]

Personal life

Anne Innis’ parents were both academics, her father, Harold Innis, an eminent professor at the University of Toronto and her mother, Mary Quayle Innis, an author of short stories and books of history.^[3] Anne Innis married Ian Ralph Dagg (1928-1993) in 1957. He taught at the University of Waterloo’s Physics Department from 1959 to 1993, and served as chair of the department from 1988 to 1993.^[4] The marriage produced three children, Hugh, Ian and Mary, and ended with his death.^[2]

Bibliography

• Canadian wildlife and man. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. 1974; 192 p. 
• With J. Bristol Foster: The giraffe: its biology, behavior, and ecology. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. 1976; xiii+210 p. ; 2nd edition. Huntington, N. Y.: R. E. Krieger Pub. Co. 1982; xv+232 p. 
• Wildlife Management in Europe. Waterloo, Ont.: Otter Press. 1977; ix+324 p. ^[5]
• Camel quest: summer research on the Saharan camel. Toronto: York Pub. & Print Co. 1978; 192 p. 
• With Hilde Gauthier-Pilters: The camel: its evolution, ecology, behavior, and relationship to man. 1981. ISBN 0226284530; xii+208 p. 
• Harems and other horrors: sexual bias in behavioral biology. Waterloo, Ont.: Otter Press. 1983; 125 p. 
• The fifty percent solution: why should women pay for men's culture?. Waterloo, Ont.: Otter Press. 1986; 128 p. 
• The feminine gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836–1945 (With foreword by Helen M. Buss). Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier U. Press. 2001. ISBN 0-88920-355-5; 355 p. ^[6]
• "Love of shopping" is not a gene: problems with Darwinian psychology. Montreal: Black Rose Press. 2005. 
• Pursuing giraffe: a 1950s adventure. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier U. Press. 2006; 281 p. 
• The social behavior of older animals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press. 2009; ix+225 p. ^[7]
• Animal friendships. NY: Cambridge U. Press. 2011; viii+238 p. ;^[1] hbk. ISBN 9781107005426. ; pbk. ISBN 9780521183154. 
• With Lee E. Harding: Human evolution and male aggression: debunking the myth of man and ape. Amherst, N. Y.: Cambria Press. 2012. 
• Giraffe: biology, behavior, and conservation. NY: Cambridge U. Press. 2014. 

References

External links

• Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, Zoologist, Feminist, Author, annedagg.net
• Dr. Anne Dagg Zoologist Feminist Author, annedagg.ca
• Independent Studies, University of Waterloo, uwaterloo.ca/independent-studies/