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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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
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| Series: | Human-animal studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Acronyms; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Animal Abuse as a Social Problem; Chapter 3 The Animal Problem in Social Context; Chapter 4 Cruelty and Compassion in a Decent Society; Chapter 5 Diagnosing Cruelty: Intellectual Work in Animal Advocacy; Chapter 6 Practising Animal Activism: Exposure and Interference Strategies; Chapter 7 Mobilising Emotions: Affective Work in Animal Protection; Chapter 8 Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.