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Confronting cruelty : moral orthodoxy and the challenge of the animal rights movement / by Lyle Munro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Munro, Lyle.
- Series:
- Human-animal studies ; v. 1.
- Human-animal studies, 1573-4226 ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal rights movement--United States--History.
- Animal rights movement.
- Animal rights movement--Great Britain--History.
- Animal rights movement--Australia--History.
- Animal rights activists--United States--History.
- Animal rights activists.
- Animal rights activists--Great Britain--History.
- Animal rights activists--Australia--History.
- Animal welfare--United States--History.
- Animal welfare.
- Animal welfare--Great Britain--History.
- Animal welfare--Australia--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? Responses to this question provide important insights into the much misunderstood animal rights movement and the people in it who challenge the moral orthodoxy that underpins our attitudes towards nonhuman animals. The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming ,bloodsports and other contexts where animals suffer. Social movement theory is used to show how animal rights activists are engaged in the social construction of cruelty as a social problem which they seek to prevent by their intellectual, practical and emotion work in seminal campaigns against cruelty in the United States, England and Australia.
- Contents:
- Acronyms; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Animal Abuse as a Social Problem; Chapter 3 The Animal Problem in Social Context; Chapter 4 Cruelty and Compassion in a Decent Society; Chapter 5 Diagnosing Cruelty: Intellectual Work in Animal Advocacy; Chapter 6 Practising Animal Activism: Exposure and Interference Strategies; Chapter 7 Mobilising Emotions: Affective Work in Animal Protection; Chapter 8 Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86777-9
- 9786610867776
- 1-4294-5286-2
- 90-474-0717-2
- 1-4337-0567-2
- OCLC:
- 476023750
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047407171 DOI
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