Loving Animals: Toward a New Animal Advocacy

by Kathy Rudy

Book Overview

The contemporary animal rights movement encompasses a wide range of sometimes-competing agendas from vegetarianism to animal liberation. For people for whom pets are family members--animal lovers outside the fray--extremist positions in which all human-animal interaction is suspect often discourage involvement in the movement to end cruelty to other beings. In Loving Animals , Kathy Rudy argues that in order to achieve such goals as ending animal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081667468X
• ISBN13: 9780816674688
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"