Animal Rights/human Rights - Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation

Informationen zum Autor By David Nibert - Foreword by Dr. Michael W. Fox Klappentext This accessible and cutting-edge work offers a new look at the history of western 'civilization, ' one that brings into focus the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. Nibert argues that the oppression both of humans and of other species of animals is inextricably tangled within the structure of social arrangements. Nibert asserts that human use and mistreatment of other animals are not natural and do little to further the human condition Zusammenfassung A look at the history of Western "civilization"! and the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. David Nibert argues that throughout history the exploitation of other animals has gone hand-in-hand with the oppression of women! people of colour! and other oppressed groups. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Foreword Part 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1 Toward A Sociological Analysis of Animal Oppression Chapter 4 2 Economic Basis of Animal Oppression Chapter 5 3 Capitalist Expansion and Oppression Chapter 6 4 The Growth of Agribusiness and Global Oppression Chapter 7 5 Oppression and the Capitalist State Chapter 8 6 The Social Construction of Speciesist Reality Chapter 9 7 Toward A United Struggle against Oppression

Product details

• Authors: Michael W. Fox, David Nibert, Nibert David
• Assisted by: Michael W. Fox (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2002
• EAN: 9780742517752
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1775-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Animals & society, Animals and society, Human rights, civil rights