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This is the first multidisciplinary book that addresses the ethics of fur. It tilts against fur. Whatever might have been true of the past, the production of fur is now morally problematic in terms of both necessity and suffering.
List of contents
Introduction: Increasing Ethical Sensitivity around Fur
Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey
Part I: Historical and Religious Perspectives
Chapter 1: From the Pleistocene to COVID-19: A Brief History of Fur
Adam Bridgen
Chapter 2: "Thou Shalt Not Use the Skins of Any Living Creature": The Original Anti-Fur Activist, Thomas Tryon (1634-1703)
Adam Bridgen
Chapter 3: The New England Fur Trade: The Ethics of Puritan Dress in a Portrait of Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton
Linda M. Johnson
Chapter 4: The Nineteenth-Century Boycott against Feathered Hats
Robyn Hederman
Chapter 5: Corpse "Contamination" as a Religious Approach to Fur
Sidney Blankenship
Chapter 6: Of Ermines, Cats, and "the Best-Dressed Pontiff Ever": The Ethics of Fur-Trimmed Clerical Garb
Kurt Remele
Part II: Ethical and Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 7: A Case of Wrongful Use: An Ethical Analysis of the Use of Animal Fur
Frances M. C. Robinson
Chapter 8: If a Fox Could Talk: Wittgenstein and the Calculated Silencing of Anima
About the author
Andrew Linzey is director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and has been a member of the faculty of theology in the University of Oxford for twenty-eight years.Clair Linzey is deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is a professor of animal theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.
