Diana Donald

Women against cruelty

Protection of animals in nineteenth-century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first study of womenâ s leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .

Produktdetails

• Gender in History
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781526115423
• ISBN-10: 1526115425
• Artikelnr.: 57366833

Autorenporträt

Diana Donald, now an independent scholar, is the author of Picturing Animals in Britain 1750-1850, and the prize-winning Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Prefatory note: The archive of the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals Introduction 1 Sexual distinctions in attitudes to
animals in the late Georgian era 2 The early history of the RSPCA: its
culture and its conflicts 3 Animal welfare and 'humane education': new
roles for women 4 The 'two religions': a gendered divide in Victorian
society 5 Anti-vivisection: a feminist cause? 6 Sentiment and 'the spirit
of life': new insights at the fin de siècle Index