Animal Liberators Research and Morality

Sperling, Susan

ISBN 10: 0520061985 / ISBN 13: 9780520061989

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988

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This book is in excellent condition. It is quite clean; with no writing, no highlighting, and no marks inside. ; SIGNED and inscribed: "To Burton - With much gratitude. Etc. Susan" and it also includes a written card from the author. ; 8.5 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches; 247 pages; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Animal Liberators Research and Morality
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520061985
• ISBN 13: 9780520061989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

What has inspired such diverse groups as holistic health advocates, radical ecologists, and feminists to join forces in the recent passionate protests against animal experimentation? Small antivivisection groups have always existed in the United States, but the strength of the new animal rights movement, which began to develop during the late 1970s, has no parallel in modern history. Susan Sperling's brilliant investigation leads her to compare the movement today with the powerful antivivisectionist movement in Victorian Great Britain. She exposes the tensions and anxieties about technology which underlie these protests. Antivivisectionists in both periods have perceived scientific and medical technologies as manipulative, invasive, and exploitative, overwhelming human lives as well as those of animals.

Animal Liberators examines the important links between past and present animal rights movements and the movements for radical feminism, ecology, and holistic health. The book also explores changing ideas of animals in modern culture. In the decades since the 1960s our interest as a society in studies of animals has been manifested in a wide scholarly and popular literature. The complex social behavior of apes, dolphins, and other mammals is now part of the popular imagination of our culture. The great popularity of these accounts of animal behavior has created an image of animals on the border of humanity, and that image fuels antivivisection sentiment. The author has conducted probing interviews with many of the architects of the contemporary animal rights movement, revealing aspects not widely understood. Biomedical scientists, animal lovers, and a concerned public will find important implications for public policy in this thoughtful book.

About the Author

Susan Sperling received her doctorate in physical anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed Animal Liberators while a postdoctoral fellow in medical anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco. She has taught at Berkeley and City College of San Francisco and is presently teaching at Chabot College, Hayward, California.