Animals Rights category: 355 books
Animal Property Rights
A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals represents the first attempt to extend liberal property rights theory across the species barrier to animals. It broadens the traditional focus of animal rights beyond basic rights to life and bodily integrity to rights to the natural...
Making A Killing
The Political Economy of Animal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a Killing contains key insights into the broad nature of domination,...
Advocates for Animals
An Inside Look at Some of the Extraordinary Efforts to End Animal Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
With over 65 percent of households having a pet, and Americans spending over $60 billion on them each year, it’s a proven statistic that Americans love animals. Public opinions consistently show we favor compassion for all animals. Animal welfare, rights, and protection is one of the most popular...
Animal Rights Without Liberation
Applied Ethics and Human Obligations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other...
by Julian H. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Animals obviously cannot have a right of free speech or a right to vote because they lack the relevant capacities. But their right to life and to be free of exploitation is no less fundamental than the corresponding right of humans, writes Julian H. Franklin. This theoretically rigorous book will...
The Animal Code
Giving Animals Respect and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
How should we treat animals? And how do we? The Animal Code answers these questions, illustrating the myriad ways in which people exploit animals. Danny Crossman makes a compelling case for us to recognise animals’ needs, feelings and legitimate place on the planet to live their lives as they wish.
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by David DeGrazia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2002
Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications...
Introduction to Animal Rights
Your Child or the Dog?
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Two-thirds of Americans polled by the Associated Press agree with the following statement: "An animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering." More than 50 percent of Americans believe that it is wrong to kill animals...
Rain Without Thunder
The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Are "animal welfare" supporters indistinguishable from the animal exploiters they oppose? Do reformist measures reaffirm the underlying principles that make animal exploitation possible in the first place? In this provocative book, Gary L. Francione argues that the modern animal rights movement...
The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights
Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
With more than two million members and supporters, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the world's largest animal-rights organization, and its founder and president, Ingrid Newkirk, is one of the most well-known and most effective activists in America. She has spearheaded worldwide...
Animal Rights/Human Rights
Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
This accessible and cutting-edge work offers a new look at the history of western 'civilization,' one that brings into focus the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. Nibert argues persuasively that throughout history the exploitation of other animals has gone hand in hand...
by Catharine Grant
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Today animals need protecting more than ever: those bred for laboratories, zoos, and hunting, and also those reared intensively on farms. And out in the wild, animals are losing their habitats to environmental exploitation.Dispelling the myth that the protection of animals’ rights is a modern, Western...
Animals and Women
Feminist Theoretical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1995
Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are inextricably...
Animal Rights
A Historical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. Animal Rights reveals the ways in which a variety of thinkers have addressed such issues as our ethical...