Animals Rights category: 355 books
The Gospel of Kindness
Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, Internet campaigns against trophy hunting, or celebrities declaring that they would "rather go naked" than wear fur. Contemporary critics readily dismiss animal protectionism as a modern secular movement...
Humans and Other Animals
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Humans and Other Animals is about the myriad and evolving ways in which humans and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and animality found around the world, and individual experiences of other animals.
Samantha Hurn explores the work of anthropologists and scholars...
Beating Hearts
Abortion and Animal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
How can someone who condemns hunting, animal farming, and animal experimentation also favor legal abortion, which is the deliberate destruction of a human fetus? The authors of Beating Hearts aim to reconcile this apparent conflict and examine the surprisingly similar strategic and tactical questions...
Before the Law
Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status...
Animal Rights, Human Wrongs
An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Regan provides the theoretical framework that grounds a responsible pro-animal rights perspective, and ultimately explores how asking moral questions about other animals can lead to a better understanding of ourselves.
Tears of Battle
An Animal Rights Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
An Account of one Woman's Courage, Caring, and Generosity in the Face of the Inhumane
Brigitte Bardot—a global icon of French cinema—has used her fame to give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves. Leaving the spotlight of stardom, she has dedicated her time and fortune to promoting...
by Gary Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under the rubric of postmodernist...
Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity
Philosophy + Animal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
While writing a chapter on contemporary animal rights for an ethics book, philosophy professor James Brusseau began asking how the animal studies could reflect back to reveal human truths. Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity pursues that question as it ranges from an accessible look at today's philosophy...
Eat This Book
A Carnivore's Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Veterinarians serve on the front lines working to prevent animal suffering and abuse. For centuries, their compassion and expertise have improved the quality of life and death for animals in their care. However, modern interest in animal rights has led more and more people to ask questions about the...
The Humane Economy
How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A major new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a practical roadmap for how we can use the marketplace to promote the welfare of all living creatures, from the renowned animal-rights advocate Wayne Pacelle, President/CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and New York Times...
Is Honey Vegan?
and other ethical questions about bees
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
"For much of the past 10 years, beekeepers, primarily in the United States and Europe, have been reporting annual hive losses of 30 percent or higher, substantially more than is considered normal or sustainable. But this winter, many U.S. beekeepers experienced losses of 40 to 50 percent or more"...
Values in Conflict
Reflections of an Animal Advocate
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Values in Conflict: Reflections of an Animal Advocate offers an account of changing and conflicting social values regarding mans role in the natural world. Author Georges Dupras compels us to think about mans role in animal suffering and leads us to the inescapable conclusion that we must speak and...
Saving Molly
A Research Veterinarian's Choices—for the Love of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1998
How rescuing a puppy led a veterinarian to rethink the ethics of his work: “Will surely interest everyone who cares about animal welfare and animal rights” (Library Journal).
The puppy was on the verge of death when James Mahoney found her. Molly was not the first dying animal the research...