The animal rights movement in America : from compassion to respect /

Advocacy for the welfare of animals goes back a long way in the United States - and even farther in Great Britain and Europe - but it was only in the 1970s and 1980s that the idea of animals possessing fundamental rights was presented to the public in the form of demonstrations, raids on laboratorie...

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Main Author: Finsen, Lawrence
Other Authors: Finsen, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Toronto : New York : Twayne ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994.
Series:Social movements past and present
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505 0 |a Why animal rights? -- Historical roots -- Many hands on many oars: organizations, tactics, and politics -- Issues and campaigns of the 1980s -- The dialogue and the dance: the opposition -- A movement of ideas: philosophies of animal rights -- Other voices: environmentalism, ecofeminism, and animal liberation -- Whither animal rights? 
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