Diana Donald

Women against cruelty (eBook, ePUB)

Protection of animals in nineteenth-century Britain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526115447
• Artikelnr.: 60364123

Autorenporträt

Diana Donald, now an independent scholar, is the author of Picturing Animals in Britain 1750-1850, and 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