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The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics
Josephine Donovan (Ed.)
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Description for The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics
Hardback. Presents the portrait of the evolution of the feminist-care tradition. This volume argues for ethical attentiveness and sympathy in our relationships with animals and propose a link between the subjugation of women and the human domination of nature. It includes an introduction that situates feminist animal care theory within feminist theory. Editor(s): Donovan, Josephine; Adams, Carol. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 726.
In Beyond Animal Rights, Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams introduced feminist "ethic of care" theory into philosophical discussions of the treatment of animals. In this new volume, seven essays from Beyond Animal Rights are joined by nine new articles-most of which were written in response to that book-and a new introduction that situates feminist animal care theory within feminist theory and the larger debate over animal rights. Contributors critique theorists' reliance on natural rights doctrine and utilitarianism, which, they suggest, have a masculine bias. They argue for ethical attentiveness and sympathy in our relationships with animals and propose a ... Read more
In Beyond Animal Rights, Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams introduced feminist "ethic of care" theory into philosophical discussions of the treatment of animals. In this new volume, seven essays from Beyond Animal Rights are joined by nine new articles-most of which were written in response to that book-and a new introduction that situates feminist animal care theory within feminist theory and the larger debate over animal rights. Contributors critique theorists' reliance on natural rights doctrine and utilitarianism, which, they suggest, have a masculine bias. They argue for ethical attentiveness and sympathy in our relationships with animals and propose a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231140386
SKU
V9780231140386
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About Josephine Donovan (Ed.)
Josephine Donovan is professor emerita at the University of Maine and the author of Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions and Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726, among other books.Carol J. Adams is an independent scholar whose focus is on interrelated oppressions and whose books include The Sexual Politics of Meat, Prayers for Animals, and The Inner Art of ... Read more
Reviews for The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics
At the center of feminist inquiry, forcing us to face hard and interesting questions. Women's Review of Books This book is dubbed a reader and is without peer in that capacity. Serious students in (feminist) animal ethics should read it closely.
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