The Animal Rights Struggle / Christophe Traïni

• Autore: Traïni Christophe
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam University Press, 2015; Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 179.3
• Soggetto topico: Human-animal relationships - History; Animal welfare - History; Animal rights - History
• Soggetto non controllato: animal rights; social movements; protest; emotion
• Note generali: Text translated by Richard Jemmett.; Translation of: La cause animale. Essai de sociologie historique (1820-1980).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. A long and complex struggle -- 2. Noble gentleness, vile cruelty -- 3. To act as an enlightened philosopher -- 4. To enlighten the ignorant, to refine the barbarian -- 5. "Us," the animals and "them" -- 6. The rise in the power of tenderness -- 7. (Animal) victims and social domination -- 8. A decreasingly "wild" nature.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the early nineteenth century, numerous campaigns have denounced the mistreatment of animals. This book compares the British and French histories of the animal-protection movement to retrace its origins and impact up to the present day. As Christophe Traïni shows, the struggle for animal rights - inextricably linked to the rise of philanthropy and established long before the birth of the ecology movement - developed out of several important social and political processes, including changes in sensibilities and socially approved emotions, new definitions of what constitutes legitimate violence, and the influence of religious beliefs.
• Titolo autorizzato: The animal rights struggle
• ISBN: 90-485-2703-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996379045203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Protest and social movements ; ; 6.