Animal Equality: Language and LiberationThe first book on language and nonhuman oppression--and the most progressive animal-rights book to date--Animal Equality shows that deceptive, biased words sustain injustice toward nonhuman animals. Speciesism (prejudice against nonhuman animals) survives through lies. The book's compelling evidence of nonhuman thought and emotion debunks language that characterizes other animals as unreasoning or insensitive. Vivid descriptions of hunting, sport fishing, zoos, aqua-prisons, vivisection, and food-industry captivity and slaughter reveal the cruelty that misleading words legitimize and conceal. Animal Equality also uncovers the speciesist attitudes and practices underlying much sexist and racist language. Every animal--nonhuman or human--deserves equal consideration and protection, Joan Dunayer argues. Offering pronoun, vocabulary, and style guidelines, she proposes new language that will bring us closer to nonhuman liberation. |
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... action . Given an adjective - verb instruction like " Gray toss , " she takes no action . Rocky recognizes adjective - verb combinations as nonsense ( we can't toss a gray ) . Like Rocky , the bottlenose dolphins Phoenix and Ake ...
... action . Given an adjective - verb instruction like " Gray toss , " she takes no action . Rocky recognizes adjective - verb combinations as nonsense ( we can't toss a gray ) . Like Rocky , the bottlenose dolphins Phoenix and Ake ...
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... action amazed Ryden and Miller . By sight and sound the pond's water loss was obvious only at the surface , yet the ... actions weren't merely " instinc- tive . " They demonstrated reasoning and foresight . In this incident the only ...
... action amazed Ryden and Miller . By sight and sound the pond's water loss was obvious only at the surface , yet the ... actions weren't merely " instinc- tive . " They demonstrated reasoning and foresight . In this incident the only ...
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... action ; and the pronoun she endows the wildebeest with gender and personhood . ( I chose a feminine rather than masculine pronoun arbitrarily , as explained in Chapter 10. ) In Menmuir's account the springbok and wildebeest rarely are ...
... action ; and the pronoun she endows the wildebeest with gender and personhood . ( I chose a feminine rather than masculine pronoun arbitrarily , as explained in Chapter 10. ) In Menmuir's account the springbok and wildebeest rarely are ...
Contents
False Categories | 11 |
Victims Mistaken for Game | 45 |
Cruelty by Deception | 63 |
Copyright | |
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