Diana Donald 
Women against cruelty [EPUB ebook] 
Protection of animals in nineteenth-century Britain

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This is the first book to explore women’s leading role in animal protection in nineteenth-century Britain, drawing on rich archival sources. Women founded bodies such as the Battersea Dogs’ Home, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and various groups that opposed vivisection. They energetically promoted better treatment of animals, both through practical action and through their writings, such as Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty. Yet their efforts were frequently belittled by opponents, or decried as typifying female ‘sentimentality’ and hysteria. Only the development of feminism in the later Victorian period enabled women to show that spontaneous fellow-feeling with animals was a civilising force. Women’s own experience of oppressive patriarchy bonded them with animals, who equally suffered from the dominance of masculine values in society, and from an assumption that all-powerful humans were entitled to exploit animals at will.

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Preface
Prefatory note: The archive of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Introduction
1 Sexual distinctions in attitudes to animals in the late Georgian era
2 The early history of the RSPCA: its culture and its conflicts
3 Animal welfare and ‘humane education’: new roles for women
4 The ‘two religions’: a gendered divide in Victorian society
5 Anti-vivisection: a feminist cause?
6 Sentiment and ‘the spirit of life’: new insights at the fin de siècle
Index

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Lynn Abrams is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 296 ● ISBN 9781526115447 ● Mărime fișier 3.8 MB ● Editura Manchester University Press ● Oraș Manchester ● Țară GB ● Publicat 2019 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 7635949 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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