The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics

The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 0231140398
ISBN-13 : 9780231140393
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Book Synopsis The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics by : Josephine Donovan

Download or read book The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics written by Josephine Donovan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 link between the continuing subjugation of women and the human domination of nature. Beginning with the earliest articulation of the idea in the mid-1980s and continuing to the theory's most recent revisions, this volume presents the most complete portrait of the evolution of the feminist-care tradition.


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