1st Edition
Animal Welfare and Anti-Vivisection 1870-1910 Nineteenth-Century Women's Mission
Edited By Susan Hamilton
1144 Pages
by
Routledge
This three-volume set brings together a range of documents that allows researchers to explore the nineteenth-century vivisection controversy, its relation to the prominent animal welfare movement and the specific role of women within the movement. The collection maps the battle over the meaning of animals in Victorian culture, from utility to companionship, showing the range of political,... Read more
Volume I: Francis Power Cobbe
The first volume is compiled from writings by Frances Power Cobbe, the leader of the anti-vivisection movement, an eminent mid-Victorian feminist journalist, and one of a handful of women to make a steady living writing for the mid-19th century established press.
Cobbe agitated on behalf of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act, which sough to limit the use of live animals in scientific experiments. She also founded the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection in 1875, and edited the Zoophilist for ten years. This volume represents a selection of Cobbe's writings from the established press, pamphlets, papers and books.
Volume II: Anti-Vivisection Writings
This volume brings together the writings of other key anti-vivisectionist activists, including Richard Holt Hutton, Louisa af-Hageby, Ouida de la Ramee, George Hoggan, Anna Kingsford, Mona Caird and selections from anti-vivisectionist periodicals, including the Home Chronicler, the Zoophilist and the Anti-Vivisectionist.
Volume III: Pro-Vivisection Writings
This final volume focuses on writings of those who made the case for vivisection, primarily scientists, as the vivisection question moved from consideration of anaesthesia in experimentation, to debate on the Cruelty to Animals Act, through to criticism of the bureaucratic structures that supervised vivisection in England, and the public education pamphlets produced by the Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research.
The first volume is compiled from writings by Frances Power Cobbe, the leader of the anti-vivisection movement, an eminent mid-Victorian feminist journalist, and one of a handful of women to make a steady living writing for the mid-19th century established press.
Cobbe agitated on behalf of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act, which sough to limit the use of live animals in scientific experiments. She also founded the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection in 1875, and edited the Zoophilist for ten years. This volume represents a selection of Cobbe's writings from the established press, pamphlets, papers and books.
Volume II: Anti-Vivisection Writings
This volume brings together the writings of other key anti-vivisectionist activists, including Richard Holt Hutton, Louisa af-Hageby, Ouida de la Ramee, George Hoggan, Anna Kingsford, Mona Caird and selections from anti-vivisectionist periodicals, including the Home Chronicler, the Zoophilist and the Anti-Vivisectionist.
Volume III: Pro-Vivisection Writings
This final volume focuses on writings of those who made the case for vivisection, primarily scientists, as the vivisection question moved from consideration of anaesthesia in experimentation, to debate on the Cruelty to Animals Act, through to criticism of the bureaucratic structures that supervised vivisection in England, and the public education pamphlets produced by the Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research.
Biography
Edited by Susan Hamilton
