Confronting cruelty : moral orthodoxy and the challenge of the animal rights movement / by Lyle Munro.

Annotation "Social movement theory is used to show how animal rights activists are engaged in the social construction of cruelty as a social problem which they seek to prevent by their intellectual, practical and emotion work in seminal campaigns against cruelty in the United States, England an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Munro, Lyle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Series:Human-animal studies ; v. 1.
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Summary:Annotation "Social movement theory is used to show how animal rights activists are engaged in the social construction of cruelty as a social problem which they seek to prevent by their intellectual, practical and emotion work in seminal campaigns against cruelty in the United States, England and Australia."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Physical Description:1 online resource (218 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and index.
ISBN:9781429452861
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ISSN:1573-4226 ;
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.