The Animal Rights Struggle : An Essay in Historical Sociology /
Since the early nineteenth century, numerous campaigns have denounced the mistreatment of animals. This book compares the British and French histories of the animal-protection movement to retrace its origins and impact up to the present day. As Christophe Traïni shows, the struggle for animal rights...
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| Language: | English French |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Series: | Protest and social movements ;
6. Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. A long and complex struggle
- 2. Noble gentleness, vile cruelty
- 3. To act as an enlightened philosopher
- 4. To enlighten the ignorant, to refine the barbarian
- 5. "Us," the animals and "them"
- 6. The rise in the power of tenderness
- 7. (Animal) victims and social domination
- 8. A decreasingly "wild" nature.