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Sister Species: Woman, Animals and Social Justice
Edited by
Lisa A. Kremmerer, Forward by Carol J. Adams
Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice addresses interconnections between speciesism, sexism, racism, and homophobia, clarifying why social justice activists in the twenty-first century must challenge intersecting forms of oppression.
This anthology presents bold and gripping--sometimes horrifying--personal narratives from fourteen activists who have personally explored links of oppression between humans and animals, including such exploitative enterprises as cockfighting, factory farming, vivisection, and the bushmeat trade. Sister Species asks readers to rethink how they view "others," how they affect animals with their daily choices, and how they might bring change for all who are abused. These essays remind readers that women have always been important to social justice and animal advocacy, and they urge each of us to recognize the links that continue to bind all oppressed individuals. The astonishing honesty of these contributors demonstrates with painful clarity why every woman should be an animal activist and why every animal activist should be a feminist.
Contributors are Carol J. Adams, Tara Sophia Bahna-James, Karen Davis, Elizabeth Jane Farians, Hope Ferdowsian, Linda Fisher, Twyla François, Christine Garcia, A. Breeze Harper, Sangamithra Iyer, Pattrice Jones, Lisa Kemmerer, Allison Lance, Ingrid Newkirk, Lauren Ornelas, and Miyun Park.
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Animal
Equality : Language and Liberation
by
Joan Dunayer, Carol J. Adams
The first book on language and nonhuman oppression--and
the most
progressive animal-rights book to date--Animal Equality
shows that
deceptive, biased words sustain injustice toward nonhuman
animals.
Speciesism (prejudice against nonhuman animals) survives
through
lies. Animal Equality's compelling evidence of nonhuman
thought
and emotion debunks language that characterizes other
animals as
unreasoning or insensitive. Vivid descriptions of hunting,
sportfishing,
zoos, aquaprisons, vivisection, and food-industry
captivity and
slaughter reveal the cruelty that misleading words
legitimize and
conceal. Animal Equality also uncovers the speciesist
attitudes
and practices underlying much sexist and racist language.
Every
animal--nonhuman or human--deserves equal consideration
and protection,
Joan Dunayer argues. Offering pronoun, vocabulary, and
style guidelines,
she proposes new language that will bring us closer to
nonhuman
liberation.
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Animal Factories
by Jim Mason, Peter Singer (Contributor)
This book raised a storm of controversy upon its original
publication
in 1980. Now authors Mason and Singer have updated their
animal
rights classic for the 1990s. More than 50 black-and-white
photographs.
Ingram
Unrestrained
technology applied to animals, fueled by the desire for
increased
profit, exacts a price on human values, the environment,
the health
of consumers and the welfare of small farmers that we
can no longer
afford to pay. Mason and Singer address these problems
and offer
solutions in Animal Factories Update. Black-and-white
photographs.
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Animal Liberation
by Peter Singer
Animal Liberation is the revised and updated edition of
the definitive
animal liberation text, that reports that many of the
abuses of
the past have decreased, serious new offenses have taken
their place.
This book will attract supporters and skeptics alike
because of
its persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency,
and justice.
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Animals, Property, and the Law
by Gary L. Francione, William M. Kunstler
"Here is a work of unquestionable historic importance
the
likes of which the world of ideas has never seen before:
profound
in its conception, execution, and its possible
consequences. Gary
Francione brings a real world understanding second to
none in
how American law impacts animals. It will be of interest
to professionals
in law, philosophy, government, veterinary medicine, and
political
science, but also among those who 'use' animals and
those who
profess the desire to protect them."
—Tom Regan, North Caroling State University
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Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for
Rare and
Exotic Species
by Alan Green
A vast and previously undisclosed underground economy
exists in
the United States. The products bought and sold:
animals. In Animal
Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green
exposes
the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those who trade in
rare and
exotic creatures. Green and The Center for Public
Integrity reveal
which American zoos and amusement parks dump their
"surplus"
animals on the middlemen adept at secretly redirecting
them into
the private pet trade. We're taken to exotic-animal
auctions,
where the anonymous high bidders are often notorious
dealers,
hunting-ranch proprietors, and profit-minded charlatans
masquerading
as conservationists. We visit some of the nation's most
prestigious
universities and research laboratories, whose diseased
monkeys
are "laundered" through this same network of breeders
and dealers until they finally reach the homes of
unsuspecting
pet owners. And we meet the men and women who make their
living
by skirting through loopholes in the law, or by ignoring
the law
altogether. For anyone who cares about animals; for pet
owners,
zoo-goers, wildlife conservationists, and animal welfare
advocates,
Animal Underworld is gripping, shocking reading.
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When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
by Susan McCarthy, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional
lives
of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth
Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas to spiteful
killer
whales, Masson and coauthor Susan McCarthy bring forth
fascinating
anecdotes and illuminating insights that offer powerful
proof
of the existence of animal emotion. Chapters on love,
joy, anger,
fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness are framed by a
provocative
re-evaluation of how we treat animals, from hunting and
eating
them to scientific experimentation. Forming a complete
and compelling
picture of the inner lives of animals, When Elephants
Weep
assures that we will never look at animals in the same
way again.
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Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals
by Steven M. Wise, Jane Goodall
Nonhuman animals are not "persons" in the legal sense
and therefore have no legal rights. Wise, an animal
rights activist
and lawyer, argues for the entitlement of animals to
legal rights
in this scholarly new book. The author defines exactly
what is
meant by legal personhood through an overview of cases
involving
humans and demonstrates how this definition can be
applied to
animals, specifically chimpanzees and bonobos. The
book's title
is somewhat misleading, as the vast majority of the
author's arguments
refer to these two great apes, our closest relatives.
The parallels
drawn between legal arguments for human rights and
research showing
that apes demonstrate the same mental capacities as the
human
persons make for a compelling argument against the
injustice of
denying basic legal rights to apes. The text is
extensively footnoted
with quotes from a vast body of literature, legal and
otherwise.
Whether or not readers are convinced by Wise's
arguments, they
will find much to think about in this carefully reasoned
and well-written
book. Nancy Bent
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Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect
Your Health,
Happiness
and the Future of Life on Earth
by John Robbins
From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that
awakened
the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication
of Diet
for a New America, beef consumption in the United States
has fallen
a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to
this dramatic
shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is
considered to be
one of the most important. Diet for a New America is a
startling
examination of the food we currently buy and eat in the
United
States, and the astounding moral, economic, and
emotional price
we pay for it.
In
Section I, John Robbins takes an extraordinary look at
our dependence
on animals for food and the inhumane conditions under
which these
animals are raised. It becomes clear that the price we
pay for
our eating habits is measured in the suffering of
animals, a suffering
so extreme and needless that it disrupts our very place
in the
web of life.
Section
II challenges the belief that consuming meat is a
requirement
for health by pointing our the vastly increased rate of
disease
caused by pesticides, hormones, additives, and other
chemicals
now a routine part of our food production. The author
shows us
that the high health risk is unnecessary, and that the
production,
preparation, and consumption of food can once again be a
healthy
process.
In
Section III, Robbins looks at the global implications of
a meat-based
diet and concludes that the consumption of the resources
necessary
to produce meat is a major factor in our ecological
crisis.
Diet
for a New America is the single most eloquent argument
for a vegetarian
lifestyle ever published. Eloquently, evocatively, and
entertainingly
written, it is a cant put down book guaranteed to amaze,
infuriate,
but ultimately educate and empower the reader. A pivotal
book
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in
1987.:
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