Diana Donald

Women against cruelty

Protection of animals in nineteenth-century Britain: Revised edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first study of womenâ s leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .

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Produktdetails

• Gender in History
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781526150462
• ISBN-10: 1526150468
• Artikelnr.: 59912157

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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