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Women Against Cruelty - Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Revised Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Women Against Cruelty - Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Revised Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Gender in History
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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. -- .
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