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Women Against Cruelty - Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Women Against Cruelty - Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Gender in History
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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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