- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: New Clarion Pr (January 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1873797273
- ISBN-13: 978-1873797273
- Shipping Weight: 503 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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"A giant step for animalkind.... intensely powerful: groundbreaking, definitive, comprehensive, compelling." -- Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat
"A major contribution to the advancement of both animal protection and our humanity." -- Dr. Michael W. Fox, Senior Scholar, Bioethics, Humane Society of the U.S.
"Brilliant and devastating. . . . a book of monumental importance for animal rights. A tour de force that has no equal." -- Tom Regan, author of The Case for Animal Rights
"Brilliant. . . . A great step forward in the march for justice for all persons, human and nonhuman." -- Jim Mason, coauthor of Animal Factories
"Powerfully eloquent [and] illuminating." -- Evelyn Pluhar, author of Beyond Prejudice
'A giant step for animalkind.... intensely powerful: groundbreaking, definitive, comprehensive, compelling.... a remarkable achievement.' -- Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat
'A major contribution to the advancement of both animal protection and our humanity.' -- Dr. Michael W. Fox, author of Inhumane Society
'Anyone interested in changing the status of animals will find Animal Equality a valuable book.' -- Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation
'Brilliant and devastating.... a book of monumental importance for animal rights. A tour de force that has no equal.' -- Tom Regan, author of The Case for Animal Rights
Anyone interested in changing the status of animals will find Animal Equality a valuable book. -- Peter Singer in Vegan Voice, December-February 2002 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
"A major contribution to the advancement of both animal protection and our humanity." -- Dr. Michael W. Fox, Senior Scholar, Bioethics, Humane Society of the U.S.
"Brilliant and devastating. . . . a book of monumental importance for animal rights. A tour de force that has no equal." -- Tom Regan, author of The Case for Animal Rights
"Brilliant. . . . A great step forward in the march for justice for all persons, human and nonhuman." -- Jim Mason, coauthor of Animal Factories
"Powerfully eloquent [and] illuminating." -- Evelyn Pluhar, author of Beyond Prejudice
'A giant step for animalkind.... intensely powerful: groundbreaking, definitive, comprehensive, compelling.... a remarkable achievement.' -- Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat
'A major contribution to the advancement of both animal protection and our humanity.' -- Dr. Michael W. Fox, author of Inhumane Society
'Anyone interested in changing the status of animals will find Animal Equality a valuable book.' -- Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation
'Brilliant and devastating.... a book of monumental importance for animal rights. A tour de force that has no equal.' -- Tom Regan, author of The Case for Animal Rights
Anyone interested in changing the status of animals will find Animal Equality a valuable book. -- Peter Singer in Vegan Voice, December-February 2002 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Book Description
The 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. Animal Equality's compelling evidence of nonhuman thought and emotion debunks language that characterizes other animals as unreasoning or insensitive. Vivid descriptions of hunting, sportfishing, zoos, aquaprisons, 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.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Language is powerful,
By Lisa (Toronto Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Animal Equality (Hardcover)
Joan Dunayer compellingly argues that the cruel treatment of nonhuman animals (in vivisection, entertainment, sport, rearing/slaughter for food consumption, etc.) is often masked by the euphemisms we employ. We are all familiar with our tendency to call the flesh of dead cow "beef," but Dunayer digs deeper and calls for an end to other common practices that undermine the individuality and unique personality of each and every nonhuman animal that exists. "Wildlife management" groups facilitate hunting. "Animal welfare committees" often oversee research in which countless nonhumans are blinded, subjected to burns, and killed. Zoos market themselves as "wildlife conservationists," imprisoning sentient beings in cages and tanks, depriving them of natural stimuli, and driving them to repetitive and self-destructive behaviors.Dunayer dispels the myth that language separates humans from nonhumans. Two of her many examples include Alex the African gray parrot who can count, identify objects, and convey fear and sorrow (all using human English), and Washoe the chimpanzee who learned American Sign Language then spontaneously taught it to her son. The author draws analogies between the current treatment of nonhumans and past abuses of human slaves and women. (At one time both human slaves and women were not considered "persons," much like nonhumans today.) Words like emancipation and abolitionist are resurrected and applied to a cause just as worthy of our concern and immediate action. The book incorporates a handy thesaurus of words that can be used as alternatives to speciesist terms (e.g. use "flesh" or "muscle" instead of "meat," use "captor" or "keeper" instead of "caretaker") as well as style guidelines for countering speciesism (e.g. use the term animals to include all creatures, human and nonhuman, with a nervous system; avoid expressions that elevate humans above other animals, such as human kindness, the rational species, the sanctity of human life). This book is a very important building block in making the world a better place for everyone.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Animal Equality (Hardcover)
We use words not only to inform -- but to deceive and retain our biases. This important book shows how we use words to cover-up and desensitize ourselves to our abuse and cruelty toward other species. It shows how our use language to support our attitudes toward non-human animals as being things or "tools." Dunayer also compares our speciesist language with our expressions of gender bias -- we use the term "mankind" for humankind and "lower" animals for all but humans. Even people who are sensitive to our more obvious speciesist epithets (like the use of "animal" or "subhuman" to refer to bad actions and "pig" to refer to human sloppiness) and our use of impersonal pronouns when referring to non-humans -- even such sensitized people might still find themselves not exactly "off the hook" (also speciesist). The book includes a useful thesaurus of speciesist terms and substitute, preferred expressions, as well as a list of style guidelines. Although this is not a book that one can read in one sitting, it is an important work for both people who care about our treatment and "use" of animals as well as those who care about how we use language.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant!! A Much Needed Book,
By SomewherintheUSA (Somewhere in the New England, USofA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Animal Equality (Hardcover)
This book is a MUST read!! Read it and "mind your bees and shrews."
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