The Animal Rights Crusade: The Growth of a Moral Protest

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Book

Authors

James M. Jasper

Dorothy Nelkin

ISBN 10

0029161959

ISBN 13

9780029161951

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Animal Rights, Advocacy

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This definitive history and analysis of the animal rights movement chronicles its development from associations of kindly pet lovers concerned with the animal 'welfare' to passionate groups of people fighting for animal 'rights.' Seeking to understand the broad appeal of the movement, the authors examine the sources of the belief that concern and respect for human beings should extend to animals, and they chronicle the movement's transformation, as its demands have escalated from reform to abolition and its tactics have shifted from humane education to radical acts of protest.

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