| Confronting Cruelty
Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement
Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own?
Responses to this question provide important insights into the much misunderstood
animal rights movement and the people in it who challenge the moral orthodoxy
that underpins our attitudes towards nonhuman animals. The norm of moderate
concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the
(ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming ,bloodsports and other contexts
where animals suffer.
Social movement theory is used to show how animal rights activists are engaged in
the social construction of cruelty as a social problem which they seek to prevent by
their intellectual, practical and emotion work in seminal campaigns against cruelty
in the United States, England and Australia.
Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the
animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia. It would also
be useful to students of sociology and politics in general, and social movements
in particular.
Lyle Munro, MA (ANU), Ph.D. (Monash) is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social
Research at Monash University in Australia. He has published widely on the animal
rights movement including Compassionate Beasts: The Quest for Animal Rights
(Praeger, Westport, CT. 2001).
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