1st Edition

Rethinking the American Animal Rights Movement

174 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Along with Civil Rights and Women’s liberation, Animal Rights became one of leading social moments of the twentieth century. This book critically reviews all principal contributions to the American animal rights debate by activists, campaigners, academics, and lawyers, while placing animal rights in context with other related and competing movements. Rethinking the American Animal Rights... Read more

Introduction

 

Chapter 1

The Animal Rights Debate

 

Chapter 2

Strategies

 

Chapter 3.

Origins of the Movement: Empathy and Emancipation from Cruelty (pre-1900)

 

Chapter 4

Early 20th Century (1900-1970)

 

 

Chapter 5

Twentieth Century History (1970-2000)

 

Chapter 6

Twentieth Century Junctions and Roadblocks

 

Chapter 7

Legacy: Overcoming Confusion and Fatigue, Finding New Directions (2000-)

 

Discussion

A Movement Constantly Rethinking Itself

Biography

Emily Patterson-Kane is a New Zealand-born psychologist with a focus on animal welfare and human-animal interactions. She has published research on diverse topics including Animal abuse, assistance animals, and environmental enrichment.

Michael Allen is a professor of philosophy at East Tennessee State University. He has published extensively on civil disobedience and crimes of dissent in a variety of contexts from mass illegal human migrations to the illegal hunting of wildlife. His research concerns the tensions between illegal political action and nonviolence philosophy.

Jennifer Eadie lives and works on Kaurna Country in South Australia. She is a teaching academic at the University of South Australia and a Doctoral Candidate at Flinders University, South Australia. Her research is situated in the Environmental Humanities and Critical Legal Studies.