Women Against Cruelty
Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Revised Edition
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2021
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2nd edition
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5046-2 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5046-2 (ISBN)
This is the first study of women’s leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .
Women against cruelty 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. -- .
Women against cruelty 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. -- .
Diana Donald, now an independent scholar, is the author of Picturing Animals in Britain 1750–1850, and co-author of the prize-winning Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts -- .
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 -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.11.2021 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Gender in History |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 485 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-5046-8 / 1526150468 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-5046-2 / 9781526150462 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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